Hi Alan, this is good news indeed, congrats! But as often, a small ^but^:
> Unlike ON and the previous X teamware gate, this gate is entirely open source. > There is no closed component - the entire repository is published to > opensolaris.org. ? (One of the first pushes was removing the last remnants of > Xsun & the associated encumbered font packages from the hg repository.) While this is best of it all, maybe you should at least mention, that this gate does not contain any SPARC graphics ddx modules beyond ast, and that no single /dev/fb kernel module (sure, would apply to OS/Net) is available as src in any form, under any license. Not even in the DDK, right? Except pre-history cgsix of course (now finally dropped). This is a problem. Are there chances, that the ast kernel module could be opened? This would serve as a valuable reference /dev/fb implementation (and certainly be tem-compatible, just as the already opened up ast ddx module is excellent in showing how Sun?s proprietary SPARC Xorg ddx?s interact with the /dev/fb kernel driver. I donate 500$ cash into the project if you do this. Hopefully others would follow. %martin > hg push notifications to both gates continue to be sent to the > x-cons-notify mailing list. > > The build setup & process should be the same as the previous clone of the > TeamWare gate. ? There are a couple small changes made in the second new > push to reflect the changeover: > > ?- newPkRev and packages/pkgversion have been replaced by using the > ? most recent nv_XXX tag to determine the build number to put in packages > > ?- hg id is now used instead of packages/pkgversion for the version > information > ? recorded in the comments section of ELF binaries (viewed with the "what" or > ? "mcs -p" commands) - this will show the tag if building off a specific tag, > ? or the changeset id of the last commit, and will show a "+" if the source is > ? modified locally since the last commit. > > ?- chmod +x is no longer needed in the buildit scripts since hg preserves > ? executable permissions on scripts much better than TeamWare did. > > This is Phase 2 of the transition plan originally outlined on: > ? ? ? ?http://hub.opensolaris.org/bin/view/Project+x-cons/ > (which I'll update to reflect this soon). > > I have no information about when Phase 3 (the fully external master gate) may > happen - we've been depending on ON developing the necessary infrastructure, > and much of that may need to change as Sun's and Oracle's internal networks, > IT systems, and processes are integrated with each other. > > -- > ? ? ? ?-Alan Coopersmith- ? ? ? ? ? alan.coopersmith at sun.com > ? ? ? ? Oracle Solaris Platform Engineering: X Window System > > _______________________________________________ > xwin-discuss mailing list > xwin-discuss at opensolaris.org >
