Re: [XonX-Users] Center of the world for X on OS X?

[Torrey L. <to...@mr...>]

At 1:41 AM -0800 12/22/04, Nathaniel Gray wrote:
>In order to make progress on such a goal I'm trying to understand 
>the way X works, particularly on OS X but also in general.  As part 
>of that I want to find out where I should ask questions, and where I 
>should look to find out where X on OS X development is heading.  So 
>I'm trying to figure out where the center of the world is as far as 
>X on OS X is concerned.  There seem to be tons of possibilities:
>	XonX
>	Xorg
>	XFree86
>	x11-users /at/ apple
>	xdarwin.org
>
>Can somebody advise me on where the action really is?  ;^)

Unfortunately there is no one place anymore. I'd say it is like:

XonX: A good resource for more technical questions. The is really the 
only place that purports to be a gathering place for developers of 
Darwin/Mac OS X specific X11 technologies. As the lines blur between 
what is Darwin specific, lots of discussion of interest happens on 
the X.Org lists these days.

Xorg: Where the current development effort is taking place. The top 
of the Xorg tree is the "cutting edge".

XFree86: The XDarwin DDX is synchronized with the Xorg tree at major 
releases. Over the long term it is not clear if Xorg and XFree86 will 
diverge or remain separate but parallel efforts.

x11-users /at/ apple: A good and fairly active list, but mostly 
filled with fairly simple questions.

xdarwin.org: Not affiliated with the other efforts. This is more of a 
third party providing a community resource.

--Torrey