Date: Mon, 26 Jan 2004 11:43:27 +0100 From: Alexander Leidinger <Alexander@Leidinger.net> To: eta@lclark.edu Cc: ports-committers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: ports/x11 Makefile ports/x11/libXpm Makefile distinfo pkg-descr pkg-plist Message-ID: <20040126114327.3621078f@Magellan.Leidinger.net> In-Reply-To: <1075059166.703.37.camel@leguin> References: <200401251014.i0PAE8G2004435@repoman.freebsd.org> <20040125125547.56311882@Magellan.Leidinger.net> <1075059166.703.37.camel@leguin>
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On Sun, 25 Jan 2004 11:32:46 -0800 Eric Anholt <anholt@freebsd.org> wrote: > Yes, I really intend to replace XFree86's libraries with freedesktop.org > libraries where there's an fd.o version available. [good reasons why this will happen] > This is not a fork of XFree86. Notably, we (as in fd.o) don't have any > fork of the XFree86 X Server*. This is just the libraries. There is an > X Server at freedesktop.org, which shares the internal X Server parts > but has different DDXs, along with the new extensions (fixes, damage, > and composite). I've been working off and on on porting that server, > but I don't think I'll be able to finish it before I leave. Xouvert is > a dead project (if you can say it was ever alive to begin with) that no > established X hackers worked on. > > * This actually may change. There's been talk, and one person hacking > on, importing the XFree86 DDX into the X Server tree and fixing it to > work with Composite. I have serious doubts myself about the viability > of trying to do minor fixes to XAA instead of axing it and starting from > scratch, given its major limitations in the presence of Composite and > increased use of Render, which is why I've been spending so much time on > the kdrive server. So you (fd.o) take the libs from XFree86 and just repack them with the autotools? By reading fd.o (http://pdx.freedesktop.org/Software/X11) it seems you want to improve them independently from XFree86. I don't think this is bad, but IMHO it's a fork then. Bye, Alexander. -- I will be available to get hired in April 2004. http://www.Leidinger.net Alexander @ Leidinger.net GPG fingerprint = C518 BC70 E67F 143F BE91 3365 79E2 9C60 B006 3FE7
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