Re: XFree86 modularization

Egbert Eich <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.xfree86.forum
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Damien Miller writes:
 > Owen Taylor wrote:
 > > Hi Egbert,
 > > 
 > > Here's a quick (if late) writeup of my thoughts on X modularization;
 > > I'm not sure it really addresses your questions, since the 
 > > driver interfaces are the part of X that I'm least familiar
 > > with, but perhaps it is useful anyways.
 > 
 > How about some un-modularisation, in the form of getting DRI and GATOS
 > in the main CVS or at least more frequently merged?
 > 
 > There is a major barrier to development of these projects as they are
 > all interdependent, yet only merged around release time. (less
 > frequently it seems in the case of GATOS). There doesn't seem to be a
 > single place where one can obtain the "current CVS XFree w/ latest DRI &
 > GATOS".
 > 

And this will even become worse when forks create their own CVS
repositories. 
The GATOS for is currently remerged however I suspect that DRI wishes 
to remain an independent project.

Egbert.
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