Re: X Strike Force X.Org X11 SVN commit: r410 - trunk/debian
On Tue, 2005-07-26 at 11:37 -0400, David Nusinow wrote:
> On Tue, Jul 26, 2005 at 10:13:32AM +0000, Thomas Dickey wrote:
> >
> > > - Update TODO.
> > > - Splitting out xterm is *really* appealing, but not a priority. Let's
> > > just push ahead to the modular tree and get it for free there.
> >
> > Splitting out xterm is independent of the modular tree, since xterm already
> > builds by itself, and has no relationship to the modular tree development.
>
> Right, but we'll be forced to do this for the modular tree anyway, so I
> feel like we should just press ahead towards that, and take care of it
> then. When we get there, I'd like to ship your version of xterm directly,
> rather than whatever X.Org may ship in the modular tree.
X.org won't ship xterm (or any other external package, for that matter)
in the modular tree, that's one of the more important points of
modularization. IMO it would be really good if someone packaged Thomas's
xterm ASAP and we stopped building it from xorg-x11.
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