On Dec 23, 2005, at 10:06 AM, Scott Mansfield wrote:
I've suffered the pain of having to learn M4 and automake/conf. :-)
Ouch! :-)
Are you looking for someone who will work on BOTH X.org and Xfree?
That's a big chunk of work...
At this point, all the activity appears to be on the X.org side. If
you could help Torrey with getting X.org R7 to build on Darwin (using
autoconf, I presume) he and I -- and many others -- would be grateful.
The good is that it *is* more standard, since it uses autoconf. The
bad news is that it is *different*, so Torrey is probably unclear
what all needs to be changed, and the rest of us are *completely*
clueless.
Of course, we might get lucky and it will all "just work" due to the
magic of autoconf. The first step, I suspect, is merely to give it a
shot and figure out what breaks. Torrey, have you even tried to
tackle R7 yet, or are you focused on R6.9 functional issues?
One very useful starting point would be create a 'port' for R7, to
capture the relevant learning and patches needed to make this all
work. I'm a DarwinPorts guy, and could help you with that bit (if
you have some time over the next week) -- unless the Fink guys have
already done all that, which (as far as I can see) they have not:
Let me know if you (or anybody else, HINT HINT) are interested in
tacking this, and we can start an offline thread.
Thanks!
-- Ernie P.
Cheers,
Scott
Ernest Prabhakar wrote:
Hi all,
As most of you know, X.org has recently release versions 6.9 and 7.0: http://wiki.x.org/wiki/PressReleases_2fX11R6970Released
Torrey Lyons, who has been doing a fantastic job of maintaining
both the X.org and Xfree86 ports for Mac OS X, has gotten a
little busy with other things lately, and suggested I ask the
community for help with these ports. The specific things he
could use help with are:
1. Porting R7's new modular build system (any autoconf gurus
out there?)
2. Testing/cleaning up the GLX libraries
3. Testing and productizing Apple's X11 UI
4. Finishing the implementation of Full Screen <-> Shared
Screen switching
Apologies if I garbled anything he told me. At any rate, if any
of you have some time over the next week/month and would like to
help, please reply here or contact him directly (CC-ed above).
Thanks,
- Ernie P.
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