From owner-freebsd-x11@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Nov 14 21:00:12 2010 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 461F51065674 for ; Sun, 14 Nov 2010 21:00:12 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from kris@pcbsd.org) Received: from mail.iXsystems.com (newknight.ixsystems.com [206.40.55.70]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1754A8FC0C for ; Sun, 14 Nov 2010 21:00:11 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail.ixsystems.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mail.iXsystems.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id A8125A6648B; Sun, 14 Nov 2010 13:00:11 -0800 (PST) Received: from mail.iXsystems.com ([127.0.0.1]) by mail.ixsystems.com (mail.ixsystems.com [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-maia, port 10024) with ESMTP id 37679-08; Sun, 14 Nov 2010 13:00:10 -0800 (PST) Received: from webmail.ixsystems.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mail.iXsystems.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id E6557A6646A; Sun, 14 Nov 2010 13:00:10 -0800 (PST) MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: AtMail 1.03 Message-ID: <49815.1289768410@pcbsd.org> To: "Anonymous" , "Kris Moore" Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" X-Origin: 96.38.85.215 X-Atmail-Account: kris@pcbsd.org Date: Sun, 14 Nov 2010 13:00:10 -0800 From: Kris Moore Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Languages: en Cc: freebsd-x11@freebsd.org, Andriy Gapon , Alexey Shuvaev , freebsd-ports@freebsd.org, josh@ixsystems.com, Mark Linimon Subject: Re: xorg-server 1.7.7 X-BeenThere: freebsd-x11@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list Reply-To: kris@pcbsd.org List-Id: X11 on FreeBSD -- maintaining and support List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 14 Nov 2010 21:00:12 -0000 On Sun 14/11/10 3:44 PM , Anonymous wrote: > Kris Moore writes: > > On Sun, Nov 14, 2010 at 12:24:44PM -0700, Warren Block wrote: > >> On Sun, 14 Nov 2010, Andriy Gapon wrote: > >>=20 > >> > on 14/11/2010 18:18 Warren Block said the following: > >> >> On Sat, 13 Nov 2010, Andriy Gapon wrote: > >> >> > >> >>> I agree, but I am not sure how in the ports land we do an > application testing in > >> >>> general. That is, I am sure there will be a lot of testers if > the port update > >> >>> is actually committed :-) but I am not sure how to test it in > advance (given all > >> >>> the possible hardware and software configurations). > >> >> > >> >> Why not just create a new xorg-server177 or xorg-server-devel > port as has been > >> >> done with other ports? > >> > > >> > Would it be really worth it? > >> > 1.7.7 is just couple of minor releases ahead of what we have now > and the latest > >> > _release_ is 1.9.2. > >> > So, xorg-server-devel for 1.9.2 - that would make sense for my > taste. > >> > xorg-server-devel for 1.7.7 - just an overcautiousness and, IMO, > a waste of > >> > resources. > >>=20 > >> It would depend on how compatible the newer server is with the > existing=20 > >> xorg ports. But sure, go with the newest one that still works. > >>=20 > >> If these ports are too shaky for normal users, they wouldn't even > have=20 > >> to go in the tree. Put them on a web page somewhere. But this > would=20 > >> ast least allow a wider range of testing. > > > > Does the xorg porting team have a repo somewhere for port work, ala > area51 > > for KDE4? If not, would setting one up be of interest to people > here? That=20 > > probably be a service we could easily provide, since we are > particularly > > attached to having a working Xorg ;) > It has one > http://wiki.freebsd.org/ModularXorg/7.5 > Not sure about previous major updates. With history scattered across > several development repos[*] it can be quite hard to track. > [*] no one uses branches in ports tree (shuns CVS?) >=20 >=20 Are those SVN services still in use? Looking at the http links on that page= I assumed it was old and no longer usable.=20 =20 -- Kris Moore PC-BSD / iXsystems Message sent via Atmail Open - http://atmail.org/