On 2009-Feb-25 07:53:08 +0100, Ed Schouten <e...@80386.nl> wrote: >The XFree86 project has been dying ever since almost all the active >development moved to the Xorg-project. Xorg has many new features that >XFree86 doesn't have, like hardware compositing and improved device >detection.
And along the way, they've dropped things like integration testing, avoiding regressions and avoiding POLA violations. >> latest cvs image from Xfree86, and it built FAR easier that xorg, far >> faster, far simpler to configure ... > >Why should it matter how easy it is to build a piece of software? You >can just run `make -C /usr/ports/x11/xorg install clean' or `pkg_add -r >xorg'. Note that Chuck also mentioned faster (the conversion from imake to configure added something like 30% to the time to build X.org for absolutely no benefit - some pieces of X.org now take 4 times as long to configure as to build) and easier to configure. Whilst the ease of building a port doesn't really affect the end user, it does affect the port maintainer - a port that needs lots of tender care and feeding will lead to more rapid maintainer burnout. -- Peter Jeremy
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