Re: XFree86 4.0.1
On Wed, 12 Jul 2000, Alexander Hvostov wrote:
> Greetings,
>
> XFree86 4.0.1 is out now, as many of you are aware, I'm sure. I emailed
> Branden Robinson, the X maintainer, a week or two ago, and have yet to
> receive any responses or anything. Can anyone tell me what's going on with
> regards to packaging XFree86 4.0.1? Like, does Branden know about this,
> and have it on his agenda? I'd feel much more comfortable knowing that
> he's working on fixing up XFree86 3.3.6 for potato or something, than to
> be completely in the dark!
1. He recently moved to a new city, and started a new job. He hasn't been
reading email since he moved, and has 4000 emails queued up.
2. X is not small. It takes longer than 5s to compile.
3. There are lots of new features, new ways of doing things. Not to mention
new libraries that have been included from outside sources. It takes time
to decide where to place them.
4. There are major changes in this new version, and he wants to get things
done right first, instead of having to deal with hackish implementations of
the packing for years.
5. He is barraged with mindless chatter about debs not existing BEFORE x is
released(not even mentioning after) and spends too much time dealing with
the useless mail.
6. Potato is frozen, and not released. Efforts are better spent there then on
woody. Maintaining 2 source trees is not fun, and X just makes that less
so.
7. There are only 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, 365.242198781 days a year.
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