Re: [Dri-devel] Re: Status of XFree86 4.4.0 integration?

[Keith W. <ke...@tu...>]

Mike A. Harris wrote:
> On Mon, 1 Mar 2004, Alan Cox wrote:
> 
> 
>>On Llu, 2004-03-01 at 16:28, Michel Dänzer wrote:
>>
>>>For my part, I'd certainly prefer staying clear of the silly new
>>>license. In the long run, I'd vote for moving the DRI X server code to a
>>>freedesktop.org X server tree and the libGL code to Mesa or its own
>>>xlibs module.
>>
>>I'd definitely like to see this, and perhaps closer CVS integration so
>>that DRI work can be done as a branch on the x.org tree not in a
>>seperate tree. Assuming all the relevant powers that be can make it
>>happen anyway
> 
> 
> Yeah, I agree with that also.  The X.org tree aims to be a much 
> more open community project.  The recent reformation of X.org 
> into "The X.org Foundation" has brought with it a change in the 
> governance structure, and there are new intirim board members 
> present which make up a good cross section of the community 
> projects which use X technology as a base to build upon.
> 
> The current plan is to have the tree develop in a way that is 
> rather very similar to the DRI project's tree.  In fact, I am 
> proposing that we adopt the DRI CVS guidelines in the X.org tree, 
> and the rather liberal CVS access.  There's more to it than that 
> as well, but all things aren't all worked out quite yet.
> 
> I believe that once the X.org tree is "off the ground" so to 
> speak, that it would make sense to discuss the possibilities of 
> merging the trees at some point.  I think it would be infinitely 
> beneficial for both projects to have closer integration for 
> numerous reasons, and would foster closer collaboration, 
> between the DRI and the core, since the two owuld essentially 
> become one and the same.
> 
> It is probably a bit premature for now to make any solid 
> decisions though, but in the next few weeks/months things should 
> take shape.

I don't have any in-principle objections to this, though I'd like to get more 
of a feel for the "new X.org" before committing to anything...   Will the 
X.org tree include all the XFree86 DDX code - we obviously rely on that as 
well as the core DRI protocol stuff.

Keith