-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Julian Stecklina wrote: > Chuck Robey <chuckr_at_telenix.org> writes: > >> Tell me, I haven't followed much of the history about Xfree86 the last few years >> (far more concerned with serious health problems), do you know why there aren't >> any Xfree86 ports in our ports anymore? I checked, they ARE releasing new >> software, it works, it actually builds far, far faster/easier, howcome our ports >> are ignoring Xfree86 in favor of Xorg? Not being fascetious here, I really >> don't know. I'm thinking I would like to experiment to see if the Xfree86 stuff >> works for my mouse better, but I would really rather use our ports, than getting >> a release directly from XFree86 (I don't think they even have FreeBSD binaries >> anymore). > > I guess since the license fight that caused the fork most consider > XFree86 obsolete. It is said that most development takes place in X.org > at the moment. > > Regards, That can't possibly be the *entire* reason for the disappearance of all of the XFree86 ports, is it? Even the device ports (the ones with Xfree86 still in the naming of the ports) has no Xfree86 code in it anymore. I would be astonished if that were really true ... because I downloaded the code from there about 3 months back, and was astonished that it built without one single glitch, needing only one change (to make it go to the directory I wanted it to). Not one problem in building, a classic "trivial" build, it seemed to work fine also, and it built SO much faster and simpler. It can't just have been erased due to someone's prejudice, could it? Damn, that would be disappointing, if it were true. Luckily, it's builds so trivially, it doesn['t even need a port, really. As long as it hasn't changed greatly from 90 days ago ... However, the reason I got onto this was because of my mouse's jerkiness, and since I changed the my scheduler from SCHED_ULE to SCHED_4BSD, that part's improved also, so I have no longer got any huge reason to push this anymore. Things are now working so well, I think I'll disappear now ... -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.9 (FreeBSD) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iEYEARECAAYFAkml9EgACgkQz62J6PPcoOmE7QCgm1TCNASnbodIdtTkZP30pWsR GSEAoJePq1jZsGgjeZ+gfHNh2Smaob1s =oqAv -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----Received on Thu Feb 26 2009 - 00:55:50 UTC
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