Re: why was XFree86 dropped for ports?

On Wed, 2009-04-01 at 16:14 -0400, Chuck Robey wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > Robert Noland wrote: > > On Tue, 2009-03-31 at 22:36 -0400, Chuck Robey wrote: > > > > I recently got kde4.2 working on my home box, and all the neat eye candy > > things > > that are adde

Re: why was XFree86 dropped for ports?

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Robert Noland wrote: > On Tue, 2009-03-31 at 22:36 -0400, Chuck Robey wrote: > > I recently got kde4.2 working on my home box, and all the neat eye candy > things > that are added, I'll have to see, maybe you're right, XFree86 might not work > with K

Re: why was XFree86 dropped for ports?

On Tue, 2009-03-31 at 22:36 -0400, Chuck Robey wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > matt donovan wrote: > > > > > > On Tue, Mar 31, 2009 at 6:22 PM, Mark Linimon > > wrote: > > > > On Tue, Mar 31, 2009 at 01:13:46PM -0400, Chuck Robey wr

Re: why was XFree86 dropped for ports?

> > > I don't know git anywhere's near as well as I know cvs, but it seems to me > that > xorg doesn't have any TAGS so you can't ask for a particular release, isn't > that > true? I think that is probably a comment on git, not Xorg. I guess, > seeing > that there's about 1/4 the amount of work

Re: why was XFree86 dropped for ports?

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 matt donovan wrote: > > > On Tue, Mar 31, 2009 at 6:22 PM, Mark Linimon > wrote: > > On Tue, Mar 31, 2009 at 01:13:46PM -0400, Chuck Robey wrote: > > I need to understand why all support for XFree86 has been rem

Re: why was XFree86 dropped for ports?

On Tue, Mar 31, 2009 at 6:22 PM, Mark Linimon wrote: > On Tue, Mar 31, 2009 at 01:13:46PM -0400, Chuck Robey wrote: > > I need to understand why all support for XFree86 has been removed from > > our ports. > > Because no one volunteered to do the work to support it. > > At any given time there ar

Re: why was XFree86 dropped for ports?

On Tue, Mar 31, 2009 at 01:13:46PM -0400, Chuck Robey wrote: > I need to understand why all support for XFree86 has been removed from > our ports. Because no one volunteered to do the work to support it. At any given time there are at least a couple of dozen X11-related PRs outstanding, and more

why was XFree86 dropped for ports?

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I cc'd flz because I saw an email from March of 2008 which announces that Florent Thoumie (flz) himself deleted the XFree86-4 port. I need to understand why all support for XFree86 has been removed from our ports. It doesn't make sense to me. Here a