From owner-freebsd-x11@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Nov 15 17:00:20 2010 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-x11@FreeBSD.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E8CB81065674 for ; Mon, 15 Nov 2010 17:00:19 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from beat@FreeBSD.org) Received: from marvin.chruetertee.ch (marvin.chruetertee.ch [217.150.245.55]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5235D8FC17 for ; Mon, 15 Nov 2010 17:00:18 +0000 (UTC) Received: from daedalus.network.local ([195.141.49.100]) (authenticated bits=0) by marvin.chruetertee.ch (8.14.3/8.14.3) with ESMTP id oAFGjIB1000184 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-DSS-CAMELLIA256-SHA bits=256 verify=NO); Mon, 15 Nov 2010 16:45:18 GMT (envelope-from beat@FreeBSD.org) Message-ID: <4CE163A7.2050206@FreeBSD.org> Date: Mon, 15 Nov 2010 17:45:27 +0100 From: Beat Gaetzi User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD i386; en-US; rv:1.9.1.15) Gecko/20101028 Lightning/1.0b1 Thunderbird/3.0.10 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Kris Moore References: <49815.1289768410@pcbsd.org> In-Reply-To: <49815.1289768410@pcbsd.org> X-Enigmail-Version: 1.0.1 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: freebsd-x11@FreeBSD.org, freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: xorg-server 1.7.7 X-BeenThere: freebsd-x11@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: X11 on FreeBSD -- maintaining and support List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 15 Nov 2010 17:00:20 -0000 On 14.11.2010 22:00, Kris Moore wrote: > On Sun 14/11/10 3:44 PM , Anonymous 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: >>>> >>>>> 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. >>>> >>>> It would depend on how compatible the newer server is with the >> existing >>>> xorg ports. But sure, go with the newest one that still works. >>>> >>>> If these ports are too shaky for normal users, they wouldn't even >> have >>>> to go in the tree. Put them on a web page somewhere. But this >> would >>>> 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 >>> 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?) >> >> > > Are those SVN services still in use? Looking at the http links on that page I assumed it was old and no longer usable. The server and the repository is still available but nobody is using it at the moment. So I forgot to update the configuration for the xorg-dev repo with the last server update. This should be fixed now. Beat