From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from cthulhu.engr.sgi.com (cthulhu.engr.sgi.com [192.26.80.2]) by neteng.engr.sgi.com (980427.SGI.8.8.8/970903.SGI.AUTOCF) via ESMTP id KAA51101 for ; Tue, 13 Apr 1999 10:25:25 -0700 (PDT) Return-Path: Received: (from majordomo-owner@localhost) by cthulhu.engr.sgi.com (980427.SGI.8.8.8/970903.SGI.AUTOCF) id KAA61427 for linux-list; Tue, 13 Apr 1999 10:22:23 -0700 (PDT) mail_from (owner-linux@relay.engr.sgi.com) Received: from sgi.com (sgi.engr.sgi.com [192.26.80.37]) by cthulhu.engr.sgi.com (980427.SGI.8.8.8/970903.SGI.AUTOCF) via ESMTP id KAA41971 for ; Tue, 13 Apr 1999 10:22:22 -0700 (PDT) mail_from (shaver@netscape.com) Received: from netscape.com (h-205-217-237-46.netscape.com [205.217.237.46]) by sgi.com (980327.SGI.8.8.8-aspam/980304.SGI-aspam: SGI does not authorize the use of its proprietary systems or networks for unsolicited or bulk email from the Internet.) via ESMTP id KAA01121 for ; Tue, 13 Apr 1999 10:22:21 -0700 (PDT) mail_from (shaver@netscape.com) Received: from tintin.mcom.com (tintin.mcom.com [205.217.233.42]) by netscape.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id KAA24898 for ; Tue, 13 Apr 1999 10:22:20 -0700 (PDT) Received: from netscape.com ([205.217.243.67]) by tintin.mcom.com (Netscape Messaging Server 4.03) with ESMTP id FA51LN00.JSA; Tue, 13 Apr 1999 10:22:35 -0700 Message-ID: <37137D65.B0AFBD50@netscape.com> Date: Tue, 13 Apr 1999 13:22:45 -0400 From: Mike Shaver Organization: mozilla.org diplomatic corps X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.51 [en] (X11; I; Linux 2.2.3-5 i686) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Andrew Isaacson CC: linux@cthulhu.engr.sgi.com Subject: Re: Resources in X11 port References: <199904130857.OAA23664@bhairavi.newdelhi.sgi.com> <19990413122357.A16312@ruvild.bun.falkenberg.se> <371371D7.A8187D38@hol.gr> <19990413125254.A20170@mtu.edu> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-linux@cthulhu.engr.sgi.com Precedence: bulk Andrew Isaacson wrote: > Interesting page. However, I would suggest that anybody who plans to > tackle porting XFree86 to Linux/SGI should contact xfree86@xfree86.org > and ask to become an XFree86 developer. There are several resources > which are available only to developers, including mailing list > archives and the 4.0 development tree, which will likely prove > invaluable to anyone attempting a port. > > If you (the porters) are willing to wait until June to have publicly > distributable code, you should develop for the 4.0 branch rather than > the 3.3 branch. There are a lot of useful new features in the new > code base, and the new design is quite a bit easier to code for than > the old. I think Ulf and I are both XFree86 developers, and I've been reading code off and on for a little while to get a handle on what has to be done. (We haven't coordinated anything yet, of course, and I'm sure that Ulf will be much more useful than I, but still...) 4.0 is definitely the plan, I believe. Mike -- 4204.37 3709.72