Subject: Re: xorg - help needed
To: Jeremy C. Reed <reed@reedmedia.net>
From: Michael <macallan1888@gmail.com>
List: tech-x11
Date: 08/07/2006 19:28:39
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Hello,

On Aug 7, 2006, at 17:15, Jeremy C. Reed wrote:

> How do you plan to keep the Xorg code in NetBSD updated? Or how are you
> going to get the Xorg's code (for later updates)?

What we have now is xorg 7.0 pulled from their cvs repository and a few 
critical patches applied. I don't see why we couldn't continue like 
that, just pulling the next release from git.

> I don't recall any single or even few tarballs for (recent) Xorg X11. 
> And
> even the latest release download site was incomplete. CVS is not used. 
> And
> the code is in different GIT repos. Xorg is made up of maybe more than 
> 100
> different components (which are provided as tarballs too).

I didn't look at their repositories for some time now, was more 
concerned with getting to work what we have right now.

> But I guess it comes down to: is it worth doing this in NetBSD xsrc and
> also in pkgsrc?

Good question. Do the xorg packages from pkgsrc work on anything 
non-x86?
One point of having xorg in xsrc is cross-compiling.

> By moving away from xsrc we will stop the X11 work that never got
> integrated upstream. Hopefully though this will encourage upstream 
> patches
> and development instead of no development.

Pretty much all our improvements have been fed back into XFree86.

have fun
Michael
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