Date: Mon, 22 Dec 2003 00:14:30 -0800 From: Eric Anholt <eta@lclark.edu> To: richardcoleman@mindspring.com Cc: freebsd-x11@freebsd.org Subject: Re: what the plan with the new X11 setup? Message-ID: <1072080869.689.452.camel@leguin> In-Reply-To: <3FE65447.6050208@mindspring.com> References: <3FE65447.6050208@mindspring.com>
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On Sun, 2003-12-21 at 18:17, Richard Coleman wrote: > I see that there are new ports containing versions of the X code from > freedesktop.org. What's the plan with the transition of the main X > ports? Is everything moving to depend on these new versions of X? In the near future, yes. I expect to make the cutover either when XFree86 4.4.0 hits, or a bit earlier. It'll depend on how soon we can get important things fixed, how many people are using freedesktop.org bits for testing, and how soon we can get XFree86-4-libraries and the servers beaten into shape to live with the new ports. Plus, of course, there are also the bento run(s) necessary to minimize any breakage. It'll also depend on whether enough people are stepping forward to maintain the source in fd.o CVS. As far as other distributions, from what I understand NetBSD's pkgsrc is being moved towards these packages and one of their committers is working in fd.o cvs, gentoo has them in portage, and debian should have packages once DanielS has some time+motivation. I expect the process to only speed up. More help is always appreciated, of course. I've updated my little status doc, http://people.freebsd.org/~anholt/xlibs-pre/xlibs-status.txt The ports left to commit are all new extensions that aren't being used by anything yet (as XFree86 doesn't support them, and there doesn't appear to be any motivation by XFree86 developers to do so). I'd like to see those two "not ported" ones finished. I've started on Xt, but got stuck on automake issues as usual. We need someone with clue about locales to take a look at the nls branch of libX11 to see what state it's in and if the additions on that branch are sufficient to match XFree86's libX11. Testing on non-x86 architectures is also needed, of course. Oh, and I will love anyone who gets the Xvesa xserver ported to FreeBSD forever. -- Eric Anholt eta@lclark.edu http://people.freebsd.org/~anholt/ anholt@FreeBSD.org
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