xorg-server 1.7.7

[Josh Paetzel]

Area51 is quite cloneable it terms of infrastructure and what not. We could very easily provide an SVN repo for experimental xoeg work. 

Thanks,

Josh Paetzel

On Nov 14, 2010, at 3:00 PM, Kris Moore <kris at pcbsd.org> wrote:

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> On Sun 14/11/10  3:44 PM , Anonymous <swell.k at gmail.com> wrote:
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>> Kris Moore  writes:
>>> On Sun, Nov 14, 2010 at 12:24:44PM -0700, Warren Block wrote:
>>>> On Sun, 14 Nov 2010, Andriy Gapon wrote:
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>>>>> on 14/11/2010 18:18 Warren Block said the following:
>>>>>> On Sat, 13 Nov 2010, Andriy Gapon wrote:
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>>>>>>> I agree, but I am not sure how in the ports land we do an
>> application testing in
>>>>>>> general.  That is, I am sure there will be a lot of testers if
>> the port update
>>>>>>> is actually committed :-) but I am not sure how to test it in
>> advance (given all
>>>>>>> the possible hardware and software configurations).
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> Why not just create a new xorg-server177 or xorg-server-devel
>> port as has been
>>>>>> done with other ports?
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>>>>> Would it be really worth it?
>>>>> 1.7.7 is just couple of minor releases ahead of what we have now
>> and the latest
>>>>> _release_ is 1.9.2.
>>>>> So, xorg-server-devel for 1.9.2 - that would make sense for my
>> taste.
>>>>> xorg-server-devel for 1.7.7 - just an overcautiousness and, IMO,
>> a waste of
>>>>> resources.
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>>>> It would depend on how compatible the newer server is with the
>> existing 
>>>> xorg ports.  But sure, go with the newest one that still works.
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>>>> If these ports are too shaky for normal users, they wouldn't even
>> have 
>>>> to go in the tree.  Put them on a web page somewhere.  But this
>> would 
>>>> ast least allow a wider range of testing.
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>>> Does the xorg porting team have a repo somewhere for port work, ala
>> area51
>>> for KDE4? If not, would setting one up be of interest to people
>> here? That 
>>> probably be a service we could easily provide, since we are
>> particularly
>>> attached to having a working Xorg ;)
>> It has one
>> http://wiki.freebsd.org/ModularXorg/7.5
>> Not sure about previous major updates. With history scattered across
>> several development repos[*] it can be quite hard to track.
>> [*] no one uses branches in ports tree (shuns CVS?)
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> Are those SVN services still in use? Looking at the http links on that page I assumed it was old and no longer usable. 
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