From owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Fri May 5 08:15:32 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 4BE4916A400 for ; Fri, 5 May 2006 08:15:32 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from joel@FreeBSD.org) Received: from av12-2-sn2.hy.skanova.net (av12-2-sn2.hy.skanova.net [81.228.8.186]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CE41C43D45 for ; Fri, 5 May 2006 08:15:31 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from joel@FreeBSD.org) Received: by av12-2-sn2.hy.skanova.net (Postfix, from userid 502) id 60A07382AA; Fri, 5 May 2006 10:15:30 +0200 (CEST) Received: from smtp4-2-sn2.hy.skanova.net (smtp4-2-sn2.hy.skanova.net [81.228.8.93]) by av12-2-sn2.hy.skanova.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 52E2737F4B; Fri, 5 May 2006 10:15:30 +0200 (CEST) Received: from 62-20-235-133-no21.tbcn.telia.com (62-20-235-133-no21.tbcn.telia.com [62.20.235.133]) by smtp4-2-sn2.hy.skanova.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id CD25E37E4A; Fri, 5 May 2006 10:15:29 +0200 (CEST) From: Joel Dahl To: Mikhail Teterin In-Reply-To: <200605042300.59364@aldan> References: <200605041507.08581.mi+mx@aldan.algebra.com> <20060505011947.GA22804@soaustin.net> <200605042300.59364@aldan> Content-Type: text/plain Date: Fri, 05 May 2006 10:15:36 +0200 Message-Id: <1146816936.679.12.camel@localhost> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.6.1 FreeBSD GNOME Team Port Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: ports@freebsd.org, Mark Linimon 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: Fri, 05 May 2006 08:15:32 -0000 On Thu, 2006-05-04 at 23:00 -0400, Mikhail Teterin wrote: > On Thursday 04 May 2006 21:19, Mark Linimon wrote: > = Right now there are effectively two people who do the lion's share of the > = work, with one or two other people helping. Both of the first two stay > = quite busy staying up with the software itself. What would you suggest to > = solve this problem? > > Could any of you be persuaded to stop working on the 7.0, which, as was > suggested, brings no functional improvements, and concentrate on figuring out > the quirks of Radeon, mga_hal vs. DRI and other problems people report to > freebsd-x11? 7.0 (and 7.1, which is just around the corner) is the way forward, especially if we want all those nice "features" that Linux users can enjoy today. like XGL. Radeon has received a lot of attention since 7.0 from the X.org people, so I consider porting 7.0 to be a good thing, especially since I suspect this will make the porting of 7.1 slightly less painful. -- Joel