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Subject: Re: X.Org 7.0 port?
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On Wed, May 03, 2006 at 10:47:43AM -0600, Lyndon Nerenberg wrote:
> X.Org 7 adds no new functionality (it's identical to 6.9, other than the 
> source layout and config/build system).  Nobody in their right mind is 
> going to expend the hours required to port this for no net gain.

Fortunately, the FreeBSD committers that work on our X servers are not
in their right minds :-)

Work on on creating individual ports and testing the results has been
going on in the background.  When that's sufficiently mature, we need
to try a complete build of a ports tree with whatever changes are
necessary to the other infrastructure to support this.  After that, we
can do the commits.

As other posters have pointed out, ATM there would be no net gain.  However,
this work does need to happen so that there can be future progress.

FWIW, the best place to ask questions about xorg and XFree is on freebsd-x11.

mcl