From owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Apr 1 20:14:22 2009 Return-Path: Delivered-To: ports@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B43A01065676 for ; Wed, 1 Apr 2009 20:14:22 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from chuckr@telenix.org) Received: from mail5.sea5.speakeasy.net (mail5.sea5.speakeasy.net [69.17.117.7]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8CD558FC15 for ; Wed, 1 Apr 2009 20:14:22 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from chuckr@telenix.org) Received: (qmail 3108 invoked from network); 1 Apr 2009 20:14:22 -0000 Received: from april.chuckr.org (HELO april.telenix.org) (chuckr@[66.92.151.30]) (envelope-sender ) by mail5.sea5.speakeasy.net (qmail-ldap-1.03) with AES256-SHA encrypted SMTP for ; 1 Apr 2009 20:14:21 -0000 Message-ID: <49D3CB38.7040600@telenix.org> Date: Wed, 01 Apr 2009 16:14:48 -0400 From: Chuck Robey User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.19 (X11/20090121) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Robert Noland References: <49D24F4A.3060900@telenix.org> <20090331222207.GB7661@lonesome.com> <28283d910903311903q76d4a6fdjda6daa35313c5047@mail.gmail.com> <49D2D32D.3020103@telenix.org> <1238558849.8491.385.camel@balrog.2hip.net> In-Reply-To: <1238558849.8491.385.camel@balrog.2hip.net> X-Enigmail-Version: 0.95.5 OpenPGP: id=F3DCA0E9; url=http://pgp.mit.edu Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: ports@freebsd.org, matt donovan , flz@freebsd.org, Mark Linimon Subject: Re: why was XFree86 dropped for ports? 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: Wed, 01 Apr 2009 20:14:23 -0000 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Robert Noland wrote: > On Tue, 2009-03-31 at 22:36 -0400, Chuck Robey wrote: > > I recently got kde4.2 working on my home box, and all the neat eye candy things > that are added, I'll have to see, maybe you're right, XFree86 might not work > with KDE, but saying that XFree86 hasn't had an update since December makes no > sense to me, versus the fact that I *think* git allows no release tags, so I > think one could argue that there are no Xorg releases at all. That, or I don't > know git well enough, either is possible. If there are tags in git, I will go > back and reread the git docs until I find them. > >> git has tags and branches, all of which can be checked out from fd.o. >> AFAIK, things aren't tagged for "Xorg releases", but all of the packages >> carry tags and some have release branches. I was hoping I would get an answer on this. It is indeed a feature of git, or has it been grafted on by convention? If git's got it, I'll drop this particular topic, and try to find the command I must have missed. If those features are done by convention, I guessed I was relying on the git man pages, and just didn't look hard enough at the web pages for Xorg to spot the info. I've been a bit critical of git in my mind, and need to get myself either justified or corrected. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (FreeBSD) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iEYEARECAAYFAknTyzgACgkQz62J6PPcoOlfrgCfc9/ZsGKtJOhb4xqUecVLfrhy NDoAnRcfOJdQH1OsxVBTtjlbxlN1jyLG =uHG+ -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----