Re: XSF plans for Xprt in x11-xorg?
On Tue, Jun 07, 2005 at 12:47:53PM +1000, Drew Parsons wrote:
> now that you're working on getting x11-xorg into unstable, I'd like to
> check in with you what your plans for xprt are.
>
> I notice in svn you've still got xprt marked for build in x11-xorg,
> whereas we had it removed from xfree86.
>
> Will you want to do the same for now, removing it from x11-xorg?
Yeah, I was planning to remove it from the X.Org packaging as discussed
previously, but not until after the first upload to experimental, but
before moving to unstable. I see no reason to keep two xprint's around.
> For my side, my current version of xprint (0.1.0.alpha1) is a prerelease
> of the version in X.org 6.8.2. There shouldn't be any significant
> differences at this point, I expect, between the two. I'm not quite
> sure what the way forward for keeping just one version will be. Since
> Xprint upstream is now also X.org upstream (Roland Mainz), it would make
> sense to just build from X.org source in the future. But on the other
> hand, because of the modularisation process, it also makes sense to keep
> xprint separate. The question is made more confusing since there is a
> lot of unified code between the print (Xprint) and video (xserver)
> servers. I've asked upstream to clarify what the future plans are.
It's up to you what to do with the monolithic tree, and for the modular
tree I had assumed that xprint would be split off in to its own module like
everything else, which you would then maintain. How's all this sound?
- David Nusinow
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