Date: Sun, 14 Nov 2010 13:00:10 -0800 From: Kris Moore <kris@pcbsd.org> To: "Anonymous" <swell.k@gmail.com>, "Kris Moore" <kris@pcbsd.org> Cc: Warren Block <wblock@wonkity.com>, freebsd-x11@freebsd.org, Andriy Gapon <avg@icyb.net.ua>, Alexey Shuvaev <shuvaev@physik.uni-wuerzburg.de>, freebsd-ports@freebsd.org, josh@ixsystems.com, Mark Linimon <linimon@lonesome.com> Subject: Re: xorg-server 1.7.7 Message-ID: <49815.1289768410@pcbsd.org>
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On Sun 14/11/10 3:44 PM , Anonymous <swell.k@gmail.com> 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/
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