On 11/ 5/09 12:11 PM, Martin Bochnig wrote:

> So what now again? Where are you all??
> Alan offered us THE EXITING solution, I suggested he should do it and
> we all found a FullyOpenXsun "project", and exactly now when it really
> matters, nobody is here anymore?

We're here! But I'm a bit confused between your BSD ports and
using xorg vs. reviving Xsun. It sounds like you are in favor of the
latter. But:

On 11/ 2/09 01:30 PM, Alan Coopersmith wrote:

> However, a lot of other parts of the OS (gnome, etc.) are going to start
> assuming there are only Xorg based X servers on the system and stop
> supporting Xsun servers - at least for local use.   Clearly anything that
> interacts with a remote X display has to support Xsun for roughly another
> decade or so, until Solaris 10 is EOL, but things that only deal with the
> console X server may not keep the support going for it.

Given there's only a relatively small number of SPARC graphics users (I
wonder how many there really are),  there probably aren't resources to
support parallel efforts, but you both are in a better position to judge the
relative merits of the approaches. With sxce currently scheduled to end
in December, there isn't much time.

So what would you like us to do? I'm willing to put some time in if it
would help...

Cheers -- Frank

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