> > ps: XFree86-1 (3.3.6) will soon be gutted. It will only provide support > > for hardware not supported by X4, and for libc5 compatibility. I'm > > also in the process of pruning the upstream source tree, to remove the > > code that will no longer be used. The potato package won't be subject > > to this, of course. Will this sabotage the HURD effort? > > Yes, completely and entirely. I don't know of anybody working on 4.0 > (although probably there is a pioneer somewhere out there), and I am > certainly not touching the Debian packages of 4.0 until I got 3.3.6 working, > which is hard enough, but with guaranteed success (we already know 3.3.6 an > be made to work, that's our motivation).
I was working on getting 4.0 to work at the beginning of this summer, and was making fairly good progress before GNOME/Nautilus decided to consume all my time. 4.x looks to be an *easier* platform to support than 3.x originally was, though obviously the codebase is so different that the old work on 3.x is less useful. The GNU target is still there, though I doubt the XF4 team has tested it and made it work ;-) (and it certainely didn't work out of the box for me) -Seth
