From owner-freebsd-x11@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Nov 27 20:53:40 2009 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-x11@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 67420106566B; Fri, 27 Nov 2009 20:53:40 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from peterjeremy@acm.org) Received: from mail17.syd.optusnet.com.au (mail17.syd.optusnet.com.au [211.29.132.198]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DE0FD8FC20; Fri, 27 Nov 2009 20:53:39 +0000 (UTC) Received: from server.vk2pj.dyndns.org (c122-106-232-83.belrs3.nsw.optusnet.com.au [122.106.232.83]) by mail17.syd.optusnet.com.au (8.13.1/8.13.1) with ESMTP id nARKraVO017494 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NO); Sat, 28 Nov 2009 07:53:37 +1100 X-Bogosity: Ham, spamicity=0.000000 Received: from server.vk2pj.dyndns.org (localhost.vk2pj.dyndns.org [127.0.0.1]) by server.vk2pj.dyndns.org (8.14.3/8.14.3) with ESMTP id nARKrZBB004039; Sat, 28 Nov 2009 07:53:35 +1100 (EST) (envelope-from peter@server.vk2pj.dyndns.org) Received: (from peter@localhost) by server.vk2pj.dyndns.org (8.14.3/8.14.3/Submit) id nARKrZB2004038; Sat, 28 Nov 2009 07:53:35 +1100 (EST) (envelope-from peter) Date: Sat, 28 Nov 2009 07:53:35 +1100 From: Peter Jeremy To: vehemens Message-ID: <20091127205335.GB81095@server.vk2pj.dyndns.org> References: <200911260234.44399.vehemens@verizon.net> <1259250314.2315.10.camel@balrog.2hip.net> <200911261455.40399.vehemens@verizon.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="mxv5cy4qt+RJ9ypb" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <200911261455.40399.vehemens@verizon.net> X-PGP-Key: http://members.optusnet.com.au/peterjeremy/pubkey.asc User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.20 (2009-06-14) Cc: freebsd-x11@freebsd.org Subject: Re: xorg ports roadmap? X-BeenThere: freebsd-x11@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: X11 on FreeBSD -- maintaining and support List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 27 Nov 2009 20:53:40 -0000 --mxv5cy4qt+RJ9ypb Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On 2009-Nov-26 14:55:40 -0800, vehemens wrote: >If your having so many problems with these updates, why not just split por= ts=20 >into current and stable branches? This isn't as easy as it sounds because there are interactions between so many different pieces. Back when X.org/XFree86 was a small number of ports (basically server, libraries and base clients), it wouldn't have been too hard. X.org now comprises something like 250 pieces with not-very-well documented interactions. It might help if X.org could be cleanly split into client ports and server ports but even that's not possible because they both depend on a number of X-related libraries. --=20 Peter Jeremy --mxv5cy4qt+RJ9ypb Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.13 (FreeBSD) iEYEARECAAYFAksQPE8ACgkQ/opHv/APuIe3NgCgnOCEifmcIhbwpuPv9kqHQKdr +jEAn0DLdq7toRm6KH6iwK3QlHWwIn56 =tSi9 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --mxv5cy4qt+RJ9ypb--