RE: [xougen] Announce: xf86lite project: xplit xf86 into small pieces

"xander van wiggen" <[email protected]> Wed, 01 Jun 2005 19:15:34 +0000
Newsgroups gmane.comp.graphics.x.xouvert.general,gmane.comp.xfree86.forum,gmane.comp.xfree86.devel
Message-ID <[email protected]>

>Hi folks,
>
>I've just started a project called x86lite:
>
>     http://wiki.metux.de:7000/wiki/index.php/Xf86lite
>
>I'm gonna splitting the large xf86 tree into small pieces, si
>single packages can be built individally, so we do not need
>the whole xf86 if just only parts (ie xlib) are required.
>This also includes making the whole stuff completely cross-
>compile'able and support completly automated builds.

Keith Packard c.s. have done exactly that the last year (see 
http://www.freedesktop.org and
the Xorg  server); modularization and automated builds are in progress...

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