End of year Xorg status rant

Mark Linimon linimon at lonesome.com
Sun Jan 1 20:05:20 UTC 2017


On Sun, Jan 01, 2017 at 06:36:53PM +0300, Beeblebrox via freebsd-x11 wrote:
> If it's because they have integrated Matt's work, why has FreeBSD not
> opted to do so?

You missed the part about:

> Now that the diff with upstream has been reduced from 12,000-15,000+
> lines below 300-400 lines the "activation energy" to update has been
> reduced by a factor of 5-10x.

This is a recent development (past few weeks IIUC).

I don't know of many people who would be willing to tackle a 15kline
diff.  There are many who could tackle 400 lines.

(I guess Macy really _has_ been doing a lot of work ...)

mcl


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