On Wed, Oct 29, 2008 at 3:41 AM, Edward O'Callaghan <victoredwardocallaghan at gmail.com> wrote: > Right.. > Not sure what you mean about xcb being large and complex ? > So what am I to do to accelerate this process ? > Martin:If you send me your pkgdef I can maintain then and > improve/clean up other things such as CFLAGS or whatever, and when > Alan feels ready about integrating I can push them up myself? > > Regards, > Edward.
Edward, when Alan Coopersmith (or other X11-group members) speak(s) about complexity, what he then is talking about is not, to somehow get something built in some way, a bit. Especially libX11 has been a case, where the ABI has changed quite a bit over the years, which constituted a problem when replacing ((X11 6.4's legacy libX11) + (Sun's patches)) with (modern X11 7.x's libX11 from Xorg). This is indeed a bit complex, also - sometimes there can be side-effects which you don't instantly see, and it definitely required some thoughts, work and testing, as you can verify by yourself here (and localization has to be taken into account as well) :: http://src.opensolaris.org/source/xref/fox/fox-gate/XW_NV/open-src/lib/libX11/ Name Date Size 1234757.patch 07-Aug-2008 6.8K 1261271.patch 07-Aug-2008 2.9K 4010755.patch 07-Aug-2008 8K 4076297.patch 07-Aug-2008 2.6K 4614834.patch 07-Aug-2008 3.7K 5039226.patch 07-Aug-2008 2.6K 6409332.patch 07-Aug-2008 2.3K 6657999.patch 07-Aug-2008 751 6681985.patch 08-Sep-2008 901.4K 6686591.patch 07-Aug-2008 368 6690040.patch 07-Aug-2008 3.3K 6690054.patch 07-Aug-2008 620 6691219.patch 07-Aug-2008 721 6691236.patch 07-Aug-2008 367 6715568.patch 07-Aug-2008 356 6739431.patch 10-Oct-2008 1K lintlib.patch 07-Aug-2008 1.6K local-transport.patch 07-Aug-2008 11.8K Makefile 10-Oct-2008 4.5K manpages.patch 07-Aug-2008 80.7K mapfile-order 12-Aug-2008 28.2K mapfile-vers 07-Aug-2008 20.9K mapfile-vers-64 07-Aug-2008 1.9K sme.patch 07-Aug-2008 27.4K solaris-abi.patch 07-Aug-2008 2.7K solaris-i18n.patch 07-Aug-2008 1.7M solaris-kbd.patch 07-Aug-2008 25.4K SolarisIA.patch 07-Aug-2008 2.9K sun-src/ 07-Aug-2008 XErrorDB.patch 07-Aug-2008 3.7K See the point now? What the X11 group does has to be compatible with everything that Sun or a commercial 3rd party ever shipped during (at least) the last 10 years. Don't underestimate the X11 group's huge amount of complex work. (And be more patient when you file bugs, for example, 5 days are not enough to get a rare hw problem fixed.) Only "as info" ("for what it is worth", or how shall I say). Regards, Martin > 2008/10/29 Alan Coopersmith <Alan.Coopersmith at sun.com>: >> Edward O'Callaghan wrote: >>> 2.) XCB is part of the 7.2 release, including libX11 based on XCB for >>> its transport... So that is all part of the fox7.3-merg anyway is it >>> not ? >> >> No. We did not pull it in with 7.2 and are not pulling it it with 7.4. >> It is too large and complex a project to just roll in on the side of a >> version bump, and we need to understand the libX11 interactions better >> first. >> >> It's absolutely something we want to do, just not something we've had time >> to do justice to yet. (It's only been a few months since we finally got >> libX11 to a X11R7.x version so we could even have the option of doing it.) >> >> -- >> -Alan Coopersmith- alan.coopersmith at sun.com >> Sun Microsystems, Inc. - X Window System Engineering >> >> > > > > -- > All Documents adhered to the ISO/IEC 26300 standard file format for > electronic office documents, such as spreadsheets, charts, > presentations and word processing documents from this email address. > The author does not take responsibility of the recipients inability to > read international standards and who use proprietary products such as > MS Office. > See: http://www.openoffice.org/ > Edward O'Callaghan. > -- > http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/EdwardOcallaghan > http://moonshine.opn4.org/ > http://www.pcbsd.org/ > _______________________________________________ > xwin-discuss mailing list > xwin-discuss at opensolaris.org >
