From owner-freebsd-hackers Sun Sep 23 23:56:23 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from smtp.noos.fr (racine.noos.net [212.198.2.71]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 39E7037B40E for ; Sun, 23 Sep 2001 23:56:19 -0700 (PDT) Received: (qmail 72718872 invoked by uid 0); 24 Sep 2001 06:56:18 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO gits.dyndns.org) ([212.198.231.187]) (envelope-sender ) by 212.198.2.71 (qmail-ldap-1.03) with DES-CBC3-SHA encrypted SMTP for ; 24 Sep 2001 06:56:18 -0000 Received: (from root@localhost) by gits.dyndns.org (8.11.6/8.11.6) id f8O6u8w64347; Mon, 24 Sep 2001 08:56:08 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from root) Message-Id: <200109240656.f8O6u8w64347@gits.dyndns.org> Subject: Re: Version of XFree86 in FreeBSD Release 4.4 In-Reply-To: <20010923101244.A9616@dragon.nuxi.com> To: obrien@freebsd.org Date: Mon, 24 Sep 2001 08:56:08 +0200 (CEST) Cc: Jordan Hubbard , glenngombert@zdnetonebox.com, freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Reply-To: clefevre@citeweb.net From: Cyrille Lefevre Organization: ACME X-Face: V|+c;4!|B?E%BE^{E6);aI.[<97Zd*>^#%Y5Cxv;%Y[PT-LW3;A:fRrJ8+^k"e7@+30g0YD0*^^3jgyShN7o?a]C la*Zv'5NA,=963bM%J^o]C X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL94b (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG David O'Brien wrote: > On Sun, Sep 23, 2001 at 04:05:27PM +0200, Cyrille Lefevre wrote: > > David O'Brien wrote: > > > On Mon, Sep 17, 2001 at 05:42:23PM -0700, Jordan Hubbard wrote: > > > > We're still waiting for 4.0's "support footprint" to widen > > > > a bit more before subjecting people to it by default. Hopefully > > > > by 4.5. > > > > > > Are you really considering using XFree86 4.x in FreeBSD-4.5? > > > When I asked you about this in the past, you had said you wanted to keep > > > the same X in RELENG_4 (presumable to not "rock the boat" mid-branch). > > > > isn't it possible to provide both versions and left the user to > > choice between both w/ a information box relating problems found > > in the one or the other ? > > There are issues for the pre-compiled packages due to differences between > the two versions of XFree86. what kind of issues ? I'm using both XFree86-4 and ports in package form (pre-compiled stuffs) w/o any problems. Cyrille. -- Cyrille Lefevre mailto:clefevre@citeweb.net To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message