Any idea when Xorg 7.0's coming to FBSD?

Kris Kennaway kris at obsecurity.org
Fri Feb 3 01:59:58 PST 2006


On Thu, Feb 02, 2006 at 10:12:11PM -0800, Garrett Cooper wrote:
> Kris Kennaway wrote:
> >On Thu, Feb 02, 2006 at 08:58:25PM -0800, Garrett Cooper wrote:
> >  
> >>   Just tried out Xorg 7.0 on my Gentoo box and it appears to render a 
> >>lot better than the 6.8 tree did. So, I was wondering if there was any 
> >>approximate timeframe mentioned anywhere where Xorg 7.0 may be coming to 
> >>FreeBSD =)?
> >>    
> >
> >AFAIK xorg 7.0 is functionally identical to 6.9, which is already in
> >ports.
> >
> >Kris
> >  
> Erm, unless 6.9 is modular (which I didn't think was the case), there 
> should be a noticeable difference.

"Modular" means that the source code is packaged up in small chunks
instead of big; as the x.org website says, they contain *exactly the
same code*.

Kris
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