Re: Redefining 1.0.1, and HELP WITH LIBX11 (was: Re: Approaching release 1.0.1)

Roland Mainz <[email protected]> Thu, 20 May 2004 02:53:57 +0200
Newsgroups gmane.comp.freedesktop.xlibs.general
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Daniel Stone wrote:
[snip]
> So, someone needs to merge libX11. While we're slipping, we might as
> well change the scope a little, since it's been a while. In particular,
> I want to mark Xpm and Xaw as deprecated,

Daniel: Please don't even think about that. Xaw is used by MANY MANY
applications - even new ones - and has become more or less a (de facto)
"industry standard". All X vendors ship it and will likely ship it in
the next ten or more years - removing it from the base X11 library
distribution will only cause (unneccesary) trouble. And remeber that
(nearly) _all_ X11 (diagnostics) tools with a GUI are based on Xaw -
what would you offer as replacement ? And what will happen to
applications like "xdm", "xterm" or the X11 test suite ?

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Bye,
Roland

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