Bug#208493: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=208493
On Wed, Sep 03, 2003 at 04:17:41PM -0500, Branden Robinson wrote:
> tag 208493 + wontfix
> thanks
>
> On Wed, Sep 03, 2003 at 03:55:56PM -0400, dickey@radix.net wrote:
> > Debian Bug report logs - #208493
> > > xterm: openi18n patch
> > I'm afraid that I don't regard that as "clean". The reverse.
>
> Tagging this bug as "wontfix" pending further discussion, then. I do
> not want to fork from Mr. Dickey's xterm too badly.
There's a lot of discussion that could be made - the patch is based on X11R6.1
xterm. So one would have to study it to see how to add whatever features it
provides that XFree86 xterm does not. I reviewed it last year, found that it
added bugs that I could demonstrate with vttest. (And rather than fix some of
the problems that I noticed with X11R6.3 xterm, the resulting Solaris 9 xterm
has a bad memory leak in resizing). Some of the symbol names in the patch
demonstrate to me that the patch's author was moderately familiar with XFree86
xterm.
Studying the patch itself, I noticed more than one place where it did not do
error-checking. The documentation doesn't state _what_ it does, only that it
does something better. Code Set Independence, as I found by reading mailing
list is not actually implemented in this patch (it's not well-defined, but from
the author's discussion, this patch cannot achieve it - he had, as I recall,
more ambitious plans which are not reflected in the patch).
This is not to say that there's nothing there - but making a good job
of it will take more work by me than was done by the patch's author.
--
Thomas E. Dickey <dickey@radix.net> <dickey@his.com>
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