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

On Thu, May 20, 2004 at 02:53:57AM +0200, Roland Mainz wrote:
> Daniel Stone wrote:
> > 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 ?

I'd just like to clarify this: I'm *not* talking about removing it, just
excluding it from the release schedule.

I think less apps are Xaw than you think. There are quite a few - and I
don't underestimate the amount of proprietary UNIX apps that run on Xaw
- but I think you're overestimating it a little.

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Daniel Stone                                            
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