X.Org modules which could use some help to release

[Alan Coopersmith]

On 7/15/19 4:02 AM, Thomas Klausner wrote:
> As a datapoint:

Thanks for the info.

> Of these, the following have packages in pkgsrc:
> 
> libWindowsWM

This is supposed to only be useful on Cygwin, but a Cygwin package search
says they don't ship it, and it hasn't had a release since 2009,  so I
wonder if anyone uses it, or just keeps building it because no one ever
said "stop".

> libXTrap

Similarly, this just seems like something build because they never knew
what it was for - do they really have much software that adopted a
proposed extension for X11R5, that's been deprecated since XTEST &
RECORD came out in X11R6 in 1994?  (Oh, hey, time to change 15 -> 25 in
https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/xorg/lib/libxtrap/blob/master/README.md )

> rstart

We dropped this with a note to use ssh X-forwarding instead.

> and the following:
> 
> beforelight
> xf86-video-ark
> xf86-video-newport
> xf86-video-tga
> xf86-video-tseng
> xf86-video-xgi
> xf86dga
> xfwp
> xvidtune
> 
> are included in NetBSD's xsrc, probably some with patches.
> 
> I can't tell if they are there for historic reasons or if anyone is
> actually still using them.

Well, NetBSD still claims to support some of the ancient platforms for
those drivers, so they might be:

 - xf86-video-tga - DEC Alpha graphics, for mid-90's systems such as:
   https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DEC_Multia

 - xf86-video-newport - SGI MIPS workstation graphics:
   https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SGI_Indy#Graphics

but those drivers don't seem to be getting all the API/ABI updates, and
haven't had releases to make them compatible with any recent X server,
so they'd have to be patching them to make them work.  Perhaps NetBSD
folks who support those platforms should become their maintainers?

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