xouvert? (was Re: Cygwin/XFree86 - No longer associated with XFree86.org)
David Fraser
davidf@sjsoft.com
Tue Oct 28 04:02:00 GMT 2003
Harold L Hunt II wrote:
> Mitch,
>
> Mitchell Skinner wrote:
>
>> I followed the forum@xfree86.org discussion and the xwin.org and
>> xouvert.org bits, and at first I wasn't sure if the complainers had a
>> real beef or if the hubbub was the outcome of some bizarre historical
>> politics, but it's becoming clearer and clearer that the xfree86 guys
>> are dropping the ball. Lots of long-time, serious contributors are all
>> saying the same thing; hopefully all those that have a problem with the
>> old system can get together and start a single new mainline rather than
>> splinter into a bunch of different groups.
>
>
> It looks like people are regrouping. Keith Packard and Jim Gettys are
> over at freedesktop.org. They have most of the libs (that aren't
> maintained elsewhere) imported and autotooled. I think that is going
> to be my long-term destination for our bits... but I am going to work
> in an xc/ style repository in the mean time. It will take a few
> months to whip the autotooled build into shape, and I don't want to
> forgo having a CVS tree during that period.
>
> xouvert is using Arch. I am not really familiar with Arch; I don't
> even know if it works on Cygwin. I personally don't think I would
> have the time to invest in setting up and maintaining a version of the
> code in xouvert... but I would not be opposed to someone else doing
> this and tracking my patches. That would be advantageous to us and them.
I've tried Arch, but quite a while ago.
It has some fantastic features, much much better than CVS.
Unfortunately though it wasn't working with cygwin then, but can't say
if that's been fixed.
I think it was mostly due to them choosing strange names for directories
like {arch} etc.
David
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