Improving Xorg

[conon]

On Friday 30 June 2006 06:57, Michael Biebl wrote:
> Adam Jackson wrote:
> 
> > Here's the thing.  Of the people who want the ability to build the world from 
> > source without relying on external packaging, no one has come up with 
> > anything better.  Many people have said they would _like_ something better; 
> > I've not seen anything _done_.  Oh, except for the jhbuild stuff, but then no 
> > one wants to use jhbuild, they just want something "simple" like a shell 
> > script, even though to make one complex enough to handle rebuilding all of X 
> > from scratch, you very nearly have to reinvent jhbuild.
> 
> I think, jhuild is perfectly suited for building modular xorg because it
> allows to build the complete package in one go or just distinct modules
> (also handling the download of the correct versions of the tarball,
> which is often a complaint by those building xorg themselves and
> resolving the dependencies, building the packages in the correct order)
> Maybe it should be advertised more on the fd.o web page, release notes
> etc. and of course should be kept uptodate (haven't checked it for a
> while, maybe this is already the case).
> You surely can't please everyone but providing uptodate jhbuild scripts
> is a very good solution and more than sufficient imho. If people are
> still not satisfied by that, because they want something else, well I'd
> say you have to life with that and don't bother about it.

Even if there is a volenteer to provide it ?

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regs conon
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