On Thu, Sep 21, 2000 at 07:06:50PM -0700, Seth Nickell wrote: > > > 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.
How about sending whatever you had to bug-hurd, so it is available to us when someone wants to carry on where you stopped? It would avoid doubled effort. > 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. Roland and Brent suggested the same, but I had spent so much time on 3.x already that it was worth finishing it. And joy, a couple of minutes ago I fixed the "last" problem! So expect completely functional X packages soon. (I am away tomorrow, but saturday...) > 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) People want results soon, that's why I stuck with the older version, which always worked partially. I don't know much about X, an have only limited time. But I hope what I learned is not completely useless with X 4.0. Having X easily available is also an image gain. People can ask: Does X run? and we can shout: Yes! instead whispering "well, someone somewhere reported that he had a friend once who eventually came up with ..." :) Thanks, Marcus -- `Rhubarb is no Egyptian god.' Debian http://www.debian.org Check Key server Marcus Brinkmann GNU http://www.gnu.org for public PGP Key [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] PGP Key ID 36E7CD09 http://homepage.ruhr-uni-bochum.de/Marcus.Brinkmann/ [EMAIL PROTECTED]
