Mesa Set To Lose OpenVMS Support

[phoronix]

Phoronix: Mesa Set To Lose OpenVMS Support

Support for OpenVMS is set to be removed from Mesa due to lack of maintainership in four years and trimming out the OpenVMS can shave just over two thousand lines of code...

http://www.phoronix.com/vr.php?view=MTE2NjM

[uid313]

What more can be done to slim down the X.org code base?

Do we really need all that legacy X stuff from 20 years ago?

Why cant we just use KDrive or something similar?

Also what is the progress on X12?

[disi]

No gaming on my OpenVMS box anymore?
They use CDE (just got open sourced!)

[russofris]

No gaming on my OpenVMS box anymore?

Yes, but "Zork" doesn't leverage mesa, so you'll continue to be able to play.

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[elanthis]

Noooooooooooooooooo! Not OpenVMS! Say it ain't so!

Also what is the progress on X12?

It's called Wayland and it's coming along quite well.

[dnebdal]

Noooooooooooooooooo! Not OpenVMS! Say it ain't so!
It's called Wayland and it's coming along quite well.

... wait, Mesa has worked on OpenVMS? I'll have to go fetch my old Alpha workstation and the OpenVMS hobbyist CD to test...

[Ancurio]

What more can be done to slim down the X.org code base?

Do we really need all that legacy X stuff from 20 years ago?

Why cant we just use KDrive or something similar?

Also what is the progress on X12?

RTFA, this is not about X11.