Grimoire Lead Eric Sandall has sent a message to the SM-Discuss and SM-Users mailing lists yesterday about the Xorg-modular grimoire. There has been some confusion about this grimoire, for those who know about it. Questions like, what is modular for?

From my understanding, this is the way X.Org wants to go, modular. I found a modular proposal on the X.Org Wiki. Here is an exert from the introduction.

“Traditionally, the X Window System source code has been comprised of many different components that are brought together into a single monolithic source tree. We propose to split the tree into logical modules that can be developed, built and maintained separately, but still fit together coherently into the larger source code base as they have in the monolithic tree.”

If you follow the link I provided above for the modular proposal it explains much more.

A grimoire for Xorg-modular has existed for some time now for Source Mage. It is in early development. To advance development on this grimoire, Sandall sent the aforementioned message.

“I have created a master Bug #13845[0] to track getting xorg-modular into test. Please file one bug per spell that is missing any of the following:

* Descriptions in DETAILS
* Dependency descriptions
* Missing dependencies
* Missing check_if_xorg_modular
* dependencies
* Incorrect symlinks (e.g. /etc/X11R6)
* Broken defaults
* Unclear descriptions

And mark them as blocking bug #13845 (be kind to those tracking the bugs and do a search before filing). Do not feel as though you need to *fix* these bugs, just file a bug when you find it so that those with the time (and inclination ;)) can easily track what needs to be done. I hope that we can integrate xorg-modular to test in the next month.”

I hope this will help answer some questions about Xorg-modular. If you have any questions, please feel free to visit the #SourceMage IRC channel at irc.freenode.net or send a message to one of the mailing lists.

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