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Re: ITP: lib XT : XML/XSL transformations in Java



On Mon, Jun 28, 1999 at 03:47:18PM +0200, Stephane Bortzmeyer wrote:
> I add XT, by the same author than XP <http://www.jclark.com/xml/xt.html>.
>  
> XT's licence is MIT X11.

Oh boy, is that ever a terrible name.

You know how many people are going to confuse XT with Xt, the X Toolkit
Intrinsics?

It gets worse.  You say it's actually called "lib XT"?

How well is it going to play with the following?

/usr/X11R6/lib/libXt.a
/usr/X11R6/lib/libXt.so
/usr/X11R6/lib/libXt.so.6
/usr/X11R6/lib/libXt.so.6.0

How widely deployed is this stuff already?  Is there any hope the upstream
author(s) might consider a name change?

For that matter, Xp is sometimes used to refer to the X Print Extension;
but that is in far less common usage than Xt is.

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