Re: Xfree 3.3.3.1

[Sven LUTHER <luther@maxime.u-strasbg.fr>]

On Wed, Jan 20, 1999 at 03:02:39PM +0200, Konstantinos Margaritis wrote:
> On Wed, 20 Jan 1999, Wichert Akkerman wrote:
>  
> > Just to defend Branden: he has been doing great work on reorganizing the
> > X packages. They are now much more modular and install easier. X being
> > the huge monster that it is introduced a bunch of weird errors that have
> > to be fixed before we can release slink. And that is were all of
> > Brandens time has been going: making sure that we have X packages in
> > slink that work good, for everyone.
> > 
> > As a result he hasn't been able to package 3.3.3(.1) yet. Now that the X
> > packages for slink are allmost ready he should be able to work on that
> > pretty soon. But remember that a lot of things have changed in the
> > sources, which means that he will have to check each patch again to see
> > if it's still working or necessary. That will take time.
> 
> Well, I don't deny the cause of the delay. Still I should think that when
> something takes too long then one should move forward and deal with the
> new package. I mean perhaps many of the problems would go away with 3.3.3.
> And don't forget that perhaps there is a danger that by the time he is
> finished with 3.3.3, 3.3.4 (or 3.4 or whatever) is out and we are in the
> same position.

there is no 3.3.4 planed ....

Friendly,

Sven LUTHER