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Date:      Thu, 25 Oct 2012 03:55:09 +0200
From:      "C. P. Ghost" <cpghost@cordula.ws>
To:        Matthias Apitz <guru@unixarea.de>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: port of wayland?
Message-ID:  <CADGWnjU1V-QorU8E1_cj=%2Biy9BdvpvRCJ--TxDzZR0ABFeDkeA@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <20121023125300.GA2095@tiny.Sisis.de>
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On Tue, Oct 23, 2012 at 2:53 PM, Matthias Apitz <guru@unixarea.de> wrote:
>
> Hello,
>
> Is there work in progress to bring http://wayland.freedesktop.org/
> into the ports collection?

I don't think that this will happen anytime soon.
There are way too many Linuxisms in Wayland:

http://forums.freebsd.org/showthread.php?t=19081

But I may be wrong: they could have started moving towards
other platforms recently (?).

IMHO, there's much more pressing need for some really *useful*
work on FreeBSD, like, say, finally getting Xen/Dom0 support.
This, and ZFS, would be a killer app in data centers all around the
world! ;-) Let the Linux guys get Wayland up and running smoothly
enough, then we may think of porting evdev and other Linuxisms
into a new compatibility shim.

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