Date: Sat, 28 Nov 2009 12:02:04 -0600 From: Robert Noland <rnoland@FreeBSD.org> To: vehemens <vehemens@verizon.net> Cc: freebsd-x11@freebsd.org Subject: Re: xorg ports roadmap? Message-ID: <1259431324.2315.14.camel@balrog.2hip.net> In-Reply-To: <200911271601.47677.vehemens@verizon.net> References: <d873d5be0911091618s106d2a09ub4845e75cd5876a2@mail.gmail.com> <200911261455.40399.vehemens@verizon.net> <20091127205335.GB81095@server.vk2pj.dyndns.org> <200911271601.47677.vehemens@verizon.net>
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On Fri, 2009-11-27 at 16:01 -0800, vehemens wrote: > On Friday 27 November 2009 12:53:35 Peter Jeremy wrote: > > On 2009-Nov-26 14:55:40 -0800, vehemens <vehemens@verizon.net> wrote: > > >If your having so many problems with these updates, why not just split > > > ports 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. > > The suggestion was to have the entire ports tree as both a current and stable > branch, then using the same (similar?) rules as used for the source branches. > > A ports freeze would mean that changes to the stable branch would be limited, > but work could still go on in the current branch. > > The MFC process could be semi-automated. This is hard enough to manage in src for one -CURRENT and 2/3 stable branches... Ports would be insanity and would in no way help to address the current issues or reduce the amount of work needed to get things done. robert. -- Robert Noland <rnoland@FreeBSD.org> FreeBSD
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