Re: libXt, libXmu, libXaw, libXtst, libdps

On Wed, 10 Dec 2003, Keith Packard wrote:

> The basic plan for importing any new library is to take the existing CVS
> directory from the XFree86 repository and just dump it into /cvs/xlibs.

Mike A. Harris mentioned basically the same thing to me off-list:
> cp -a /cvs/cvsup/xc/libs/Xt /cvs/<project>/<subdir for new module/submodule>

I have been using cvs for a couple years, but I still have lots to learn.
I assume this is different than cvs add or cvs commit, because when I have
commited code before with pre-existing CVS/Entries files, it appears that
the revision numbers were reset for new commit.

So would that be done by a CVS admin on the freedesktop.org CVS server
itself?

Can one of the CVS admins copy in the Xmu, Xaw, Xtst, and dps
directories?

(Maybe Xaw should be done differently since there are alternatives to
choose from)

Once those new modules are in place, I will check them out and start
working on autotooling them. Then I can provide back patches to this list
for review before I can commit myself.

Also, Mike mentioned that the CVS metadata needs to be cleaned up; I can
fix all the CVS/Root files.

Back to Keith:
> Please feel free to whack Xt to suit; I mostly didn't want to lose the
> bug fix I'd made.  If you've got autofoo stuff working, you may feel free
> to replace the stuff in place as I'm not proud of it in any way.

Yes, I'll compare my Makefile.am, configure.ac, and xt.pc.in files and how
I approached this (including Xalloca.h).

On Thu, 11 Dec 2003, Harold L Hunt II wrote:

> Don't be too quick to judge.  Keith might have checked in your code and
> forgotten to note (and announce) that he did that.  Let's let him weigh
> in on this.

I could plainly see the code in CVS (and that it was not mine). I had
received two emails mentioning that volunteers were needed, so I did the
work (and announced publically to list a few times).

I am glad I learned more about the autotools :)

I am sorry if I was quick to judge. I just want to start using libXmu,
libXaw, libXtst, and libdps, and didn't know if I should work on them
myself or not.

   Jeremy C. Reed
   http://bsd.reedmedia.net/