Future development of xorg port

[Kris Kennaway]

On Sun, May 20, 2007 at 12:39:41PM +0200, P.U.Kruppa wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> since now we all did/are doing our monster xorg port upgrade, I 
> wonder how the future development of xorg is planned.
> 
> - Will we permanently receive small upgrades of xorg modules by
>   tracking -STABLE ?
> - Will there be kind of an xorg-devel port?
> - Or do we wait for the next big complete upgrade to 7.3 ?

In general the plan is to do something like option 3.  xorg-devel will
probably be too much work (need to fork an additional ~300 ports) and
frequent small updates will introduce too much churn and introduce too
many dependency problems.

Kris