Re: Xfree 3.3.3.1
On Thu, 21 Jan 1999, Wichert Akkerman wrote:
> I probably don't need to say this, but I'll do it anyway: this is great
> of course, as long as those patches and fixes are send back the Branden
> again.
Yes, of course, that was what I meant.
> I disagree: this will make it seem like Debian is fracturing and that
> ports are competing against each other.
Although I see your point, don't you think that as it is all linux
distributions are too much x86 oriented? I mean, it is very seldom that
something happens only on another platform, or even first on another
platform rather than the x86 world. Indeed the only s/w that I know -there
are probably others- that will run only on ppc, is shapeshifter, the macos
emulator. Personally I do not like this. If this happened on x86, who
would talk of competing against ppc/alpha/sparc/etc.? There would be no
competition whatsoever. But, unless I am mistaken, it's 99% more probable
that it WILL happen first on x86. So what is the problem? And anyway, by
doing something like advertising the fact that we have a pre-package for
ppc users, we demonstrate the platform -what's wrong with that?- and give
incentive to the other platforms -including x86- to do the same. The only
problem is coordinating, but they are only pre-packages, and are
independant of each other (every platform should have its own patches,
etc). Branden would do the coordinating/organizing which would help him a
lot I believe, and in any case, isn't that just like the linux kernel? I
don't think that XFree86 is any less complex.
Konstantinos Margaritis
kmargar@cc.uoa.gr
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