From owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Thu May 4 02:54:13 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: ports@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 683E516A403 for ; Thu, 4 May 2006 02:54:13 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from yuanjue02@gmail.com) Received: from nz-out-0102.google.com (nz-out-0102.google.com [64.233.162.199]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8686F43D48 for ; Thu, 4 May 2006 02:54:12 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from yuanjue02@gmail.com) Received: by nz-out-0102.google.com with SMTP id i11so337492nzi for ; Wed, 03 May 2006 19:54:12 -0700 (PDT) DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:organization:to:subject:date:user-agent:cc:references:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:message-id:from; b=f++uhqrEx4/Hb4cZI2gqWnFckwxdlwrDS7yPyQHzDyQwanKHOxnDhcc0e9fv0zCjl2HIhOCB0ZppgI1lmGfaZhL4RwpxtwQ3CJ2nGkcE7eH46XwbDD4zosfVGR9cO/htgemmLSmjFR9DQ/1DGZxZGpqveq2+FC8x1mah98nAEJc= Received: by 10.36.222.47 with SMTP id u47mr641410nzg; Wed, 03 May 2006 19:54:12 -0700 (PDT) Received: from yuanjue.net ( [59.66.138.109]) by mx.gmail.com with ESMTP id 6sm4447697nzn.2006.05.03.19.54.08; Wed, 03 May 2006 19:54:11 -0700 (PDT) Organization: Tsinghua UNIV. To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org, ports@freebsd.org Date: Thu, 4 May 2006 10:57:52 +0800 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.1 References: <200605031811.24564.yuanjue@yuanjue.net> <20060503104451.X76598@orthanc.ca> <20060503200326.GB21362@soaustin.net> In-Reply-To: <20060503200326.GB21362@soaustin.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200605041057.53560.yuanjue@yuanjue.net> From: "Yuan, Jue" Cc: Mark Linimon , Lyndon Nerenberg , Enrique Ayesta Perojo Subject: Re: X.Org 7.0 port? X-BeenThere: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Porting software to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 04 May 2006 02:54:13 -0000 On Thursday 04 May 2006 04:03, Mark Linimon wrote: > 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. > Glad to hear that ;-) > 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. That is what I think. Good luck in the porting progress :-) -- Best Regards Yuan, Jue @ www.yuanjue.net