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Old 26th May 2009
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Originally Posted by IdOp View Post
I don't know any of the history of Xenocara...
http://xenocara.org points to an OpenBSD Journal article, excerpted here as it is apropos to the topical discussion. Click on http://undeadly.org/cgi?action=artic...&mode=expanded if you want to see the entire article and the threaded discussion that followed.
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Originally Posted by Matthieu Herrb
...Based on the experiences of other software projects, it was decided to switch to a more modular organization of the project, with more or less independent components ( http://people.freedesktop.org/~daniels/exdctalk/ ). This new organization will allow drivers maintainers (or others) to make independent releases, whenever they are needed.

X.Org has decided that the best tools to manage the build of this new modularized source tree are the GNU auto-tools. They have an existing large user and developer base, and thus feel easier to use by the majority of developers. Being maintained outside of the X.Org project is supposed to lower the maintenance burden on the X developers which are now free to concentrate on their code. The gnome pkg-config tool is used to keep track of version dependencies between new modules.....
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