First pass at X11R7.6 katamari list

Alan Coopersmith alan.coopersmith at oracle.com
Thu Sep 23 17:24:55 PDT 2010


Dan Nicholson wrote:
> On Tue, Sep 21, 2010 at 9:58 PM, Alan Coopersmith
> <alan.coopersmith at oracle.com> wrote:
>> I haven't gone through yet to see which need new releases from git, but
>> this seems to be the current set of modules that are slated to become
>> the 7.6 katamari over the next month or so.
> 
> Sorry to hijack this thread, but I wanted to throw out a half baked
> idea I've had kicking around my head for a while. I'd like it if we
> could get the katamari set included as a jhbuild moduleset in the
> modular repo and then have modular released with the katamari. The
> idea being that the answer to "how do I build Xorg-7.6?" is to grab
> xorg-modular-7.6.tar.gz from
> http://xorg.freedesktop.org/releases/X11R7.6/ and use the included
> moduleset with jhbuild. While I'm aware that the preferred way to get
> X is through your distro, I still think it should be possible to
> easily get vanilla X.

If someone wants to make a jhbuild moduleset, go for it, but I don't
have the bandwidth to figure that out right now.

As for releases, while we don't make modular tarballs, we do tag the
git repo, so you can grab the tagged version from
http://cgit.freedesktop.org/xorg/util/modular/log/module-list.txt
to get the information.

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	-Alan Coopersmith-        alan.coopersmith at oracle.com
	 Oracle Solaris Platform Engineering: X Window System



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