Status of xserver/debrix/modular tree?

[Eric Anholt]

On Thu, 2005-02-10 at 03:32 +0100, Bernardo Innocenti wrote:
> Adam Jackson wrote:
> > On Wednesday 09 February 2005 19:28, Bernardo Innocenti wrote:
> > 
> >>The Xserver wiki page says the project is dead, pointing
> >>users to Debrix.
> > 
> > 
> > i don't know where you're reading that from, Xserver is very much alive.
> 
> On Xserver's main wiki page (http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software_2fXserver):
> 
>  The X server project holds sources to build an X server
>  separately from a full X distribution. The only drivers
>  supplied are based on the kdrive framework. Although there
>  are configure options for the xorg server, this was an
>  aborted effort and the current effort is called [WWW]debrix
> 
> (but the link to debrix doesn't work any more).
> 
> 
> >>The link to Debrix, however, has 
> >>disappeared from FreeDesktop's Software directory and
> >>the Arch repository doesn't work any more.
> > 
> > fdo breakin, debrix arch repo pulled down, hasn't come back up yet.  also not 
> > enough people were ready or willing to switch to debrix while we were working 
> > on it, and then we all stopped working on it to start working on the 6.8 
> > release and never got back to it.
> 
> So Debrix isn't the successor of the xserver/kdrive repository?
> Are these projects intended to live together?  Wouldn't this
> require much more maintenance work?

The xserver repository contains some x servers, including kdrive, Xgl,
Xnest, and at one point xorg, which was a modularization of the Xorg
server.  It no longer contains xorg.  It remains an active respository
for development.

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