Re: 6.9 Progress And Plans For The Future
On Thu, 2005-08-25 at 17:10 -0400, David Nusinow wrote:
> 2) xterm was officially split out from the upstream tree. I've heard it's
> going back in for rc1 (or the final release, whichever is first) but
> we may as well push forward with transitioning to Thomas Dickey as our
> canonical upstream. If Ender doesn't get back about this tonight, I'll
> start setting up the repo and moving the packaging material over to
> split it out officially.
It's not going back in, but we will continue to be posting Thomas's
tarballs at http://xorg.freedesktop.org/extras/ for people to compile
externally.
> Finally, the plan for 7.0 for those who are interested. We will, yet
> again, steal the packages wholesale from Daniel and Ubuntu one more time.
> This will hopefully be the last time we have to do this, as I'd like to
> stay more synchronized with them in the future, by stealing patches and
> staying up to date with upstream. We'll have to do another audit in full,
> just like for 6.8, and there's a whole new build system to learn as well.
> The benefits to the modular tree should be apparent, and we stand to gain a
> lot by moving towards 7.0 quickly. I haven't yet decided when I'm going to
> start work on 7.0 in full, although anyone who is interested is welcome to
> do so ahead of me.
I have the server and driver packages ready on my hard drive, although
they unfortunately won't make our breezy release in October. :( So
anyone who's seriously interested in working on the server/driver side
(just pull x11proto-* and all the libs from Breezy straight, they're of
a sufficient version to build the server and work fine, as well as Mesa
from breezy, until I get my changes synced up with m2), please contact
me and I'll get you the packages to work on.
>From my side, at least, I would absolutely love to be able to sync and
pull from Debian, and to be pushing my changes on top of Debian back to
Debian, rather than pulling changes from my packages made by Debian back
to Ubuntu. That kind of sucks.
> That's it. Questions? Comments? Concerns? Free alcohol for your XSFRM?
Come over here and it's yours.
Cheers,
Daniel
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