2009/11/6 Rémi Cardona <[email protected]>: > Le 06/11/2009 08:48, Tormod Volden a écrit :
>>> 1. Nightly builds. Did wonders for Mozilla. Binary of main supported >>> architectures (linux/i386, opensolaris, whatever someone will be able >>> to commit to build nightly). Download and run. Report bugs. > Xorg is not your standard application. In nearly all distros, X is > configured differently, with different paths, etc. So even if we did do > binary builds, it would be much harder for users to actually "download > and run". > And now that X drivers are being trimmed down in favor of kernel > drivers, that only makes things more complex. Indeed, there is that. Hmm. >>> 2. Make the source build easier, so people will build and run it from >>> source for the more obscure platforms. > My answer to that would be build.sh or jhbuild. All the info is written > down in the wiki [1]. > Sure it could probably be easier, but it's not like there's nothing at > all. But building from source _is_ tricky and you have to have some > prior knowledge before building large source trees like Xorg. Yeah. But if I can build gcc or KDE with a few shell commands (more than configure && make && make install, but it's still pretty easy), the problem of making it easier is not infeasible. (Of course, then there's the problem of reliable cross-compilation, so you can build it quickly on a modern machine for your old crusty one ... but that'll come next.) - d. _______________________________________________ xorg mailing list [email protected] http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/xorg
