port of wayland?

[C. P. Ghost]

On Tue, Oct 23, 2012 at 2:53 PM, Matthias Apitz <guru at unixarea.de> wrote:
>
> Hello,
>
> Is there work in progress to bring http://wayland.freedesktop.org/
> into the ports collection?

I don't think that this will happen anytime soon.
There are way too many Linuxisms in Wayland:

http://forums.freebsd.org/showthread.php?t=19081

But I may be wrong: they could have started moving towards
other platforms recently (?).

IMHO, there's much more pressing need for some really *useful*
work on FreeBSD, like, say, finally getting Xen/Dom0 support.
This, and ZFS, would be a killer app in data centers all around the
world! ;-) Let the Linux guys get Wayland up and running smoothly
enough, then we may think of porting evdev and other Linuxisms
into a new compatibility shim.

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