Re: Bug#2325: fvwm: wrong depends
On Tue, 13 Feb 1996, Michael Alan Dorman wrote:
> >From what Austin tells me, I believe the current xpm maintainer is
> >unwilling to produce an a.out compatibility version of the package. I
> >don't know why.
>
> The current xpm maintainer is unwilling to produce an a.out
> compatability package because he is frighteningly busy.
That's as good a reason as any. I wrote 'I don't know why' because I
really didn't know why, not for any other reason.
> He fears that other developers, nice people like Bill Mitchell (who
> has done a lot of careful documentation of ncurses bugs), probably
> think that he's an unresponsive jerk.
I hope that isn't the case.
> So, he invites anyone who is interested in taking responsibility for
> xpm (whether the whole thing or just the a.out compatability
> package---there's no reason both have to be maintained by the same
> person) to contact him, and take some or all of it off his hands since
> it would probably make everyone feel better.
If nobody else will then I could have a look at it; I could produce a
binary-only compatibility package at least (along the lines of xcompat)
from the binaries in 0.93R6. I'm not sure whether I have the right tools
installed to produce a jumptable shared library at the moment, and I've
only ever compiled them using pre-existing makefiles.
Steve Early
sde1000@cam.ac.uk
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