On Tue, Apr 13, 2004 at 03:16:03PM -0500, Branden Robinson wrote: > On Sat, Apr 10, 2004 at 08:26:19PM +1000, Daniel Stone wrote: > > On Sat, Apr 10, 2004 at 08:42:50AM +0200, Harald Dunkel wrote: > > > Hopefully this is no oh-no-not-again question: > > > > > > What happens after XFree86 4.3? I understand that you don't > > > like the license of version 4.4. Is X11R6.7 a better choice? > > > > None of us have plans to package the X.Org monolithic tree: > > That's not entirely true; I've thought about it.
(To the best of my knowledge).
> > we plan to migrate to the modular tree when it's practicable.
>
> I think it might be easier to transition our developers and users if we
> packaged the X.Org monolithic tree, adding stuff from modular tree in
> parallel as it becomes available.
Every single library is available. Convincing the monolithic tree to
build without a lot of libs is difficult verging on impossible, as I've
discovered with Xizzle[0], because there's a fundamental, long-held
assumption in the XFree86 DDX: the build is being done in parallel with
the libraries.
I think it would be less pain in terms of having to rebuild packages,
having to completely reshape source packages, etc, if we just did a
migration to the modular libs, server and apps at the same time. I don't
think it would be painful if we tried it out in experimental or a
staging area or something - I'm confident we can, as a team, pull this
off pretty seamlessly.
I don't think the monolithic tree is sustainable beyond the availablilty
of a modular alternative, but that's just my personal view.
[0]: My fork of the XFree86 DDX using the xserver DIX and build system -
stalled awaiting a laptop so I can see where it crashes.
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Daniel Stone <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Debian: the universal operating system http://www.debian.org
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