X11

Yves de Champlain yves at macports.org
Wed Apr 25 17:08:01 PDT 2007


Le 07-04-25 à 19:50, Ben Byer a écrit :

> On Apr 18, 2007, at 2:40 PM, Yves de Champlain wrote:
>> Le 07-04-18 à 16:10, Jordan K. Hubbard a écrit :
>>
>>> Just to follow up to myself, by "we" I mean Apple.  I'm not clear  
>>> on what MacPorts wants to do just yet given that the xorg port  
>>> doesn't have a maintainer.
>>>
>>> Maybe I can convince the guy maintaining Apple's X11 to also  
>>> maintain MacPorts' x11, but I make no promises. :-)
>>
>> The guy seems to be heading the good way :
>>
>> http://gitweb.freedesktop.org/?p=users/bbyer/dports.git;a=tree
>
> *delurk*

Being curious by nature, what does this mean ?

> I'd like to eventually submit these for inclusion in MacPorts to  
> replace the broken xorg port that currently exists.  As it stands,  
> I wasn't able to figure out how to build more than one module (each  
> of which needs a separate configure / make / make install step) per  
> portfile, so I have dozens of dozens of portfiles out there.   
> Building a replacement for X11.app takes > 200 modules, and I don't  
> really want to dump that many portfiles into the main collection.

Being curious by nature, isn't it the goal of modular x11, to be be  
modular ?  just asking.

yves





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