Date: Thu, 4 May 2006 10:57:52 +0800 From: "Yuan, Jue" <yuanjue02@gmail.com> To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org, ports@freebsd.org Cc: Mark Linimon <linimon@lonesome.com>, Lyndon Nerenberg <lyndon@orthanc.ca>, Enrique Ayesta Perojo <eayesta@portugalete.uned.es> Subject: Re: X.Org 7.0 port? Message-ID: <200605041057.53560.yuanjue@yuanjue.net> In-Reply-To: <20060503200326.GB21362@soaustin.net> References: <200605031811.24564.yuanjue@yuanjue.net> <20060503104451.X76598@orthanc.ca> <20060503200326.GB21362@soaustin.net>
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On Thursday 04 May 2006 04:03, Mark Linimon wrote: > On Wed, May 03, 2006 at 10:47:43AM -0600, Lyndon Nerenberg wrote: > > X.Org 7 adds no new functionality (it's identical to 6.9, other than the > > source layout and config/build system). Nobody in their right mind is > > going to expend the hours required to port this for no net gain. > > Fortunately, the FreeBSD committers that work on our X servers are not > in their right minds :-) > > Work on on creating individual ports and testing the results has been > going on in the background. When that's sufficiently mature, we need > to try a complete build of a ports tree with whatever changes are > necessary to the other infrastructure to support this. After that, we > can do the commits. > Glad to hear that ;-) > As other posters have pointed out, ATM there would be no net gain. > However, this work does need to happen so that there can be future > progress. That is what I think. Good luck in the porting progress :-) -- Best Regards Yuan, Jue @ www.yuanjue.net
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