On Wed, Mar 31, 2004 at 05:06:40PM -0800, Keith Packard wrote: > > Around 19 o'clock on Mar 31, Thomas Dickey wrote: > > > If it's not in the X.org repository, I gain the impression that it would > > not be released in X11R6.8 > > My hope is that any future release from X.org would not be a monolithic > release but rather a collection of separately released modules so that the > 'X.org repository' becomes only those modules which people want to > maintain there. X.org would then construct a release of software > maintained both in it's own repository as well as software maintained > elsewhere without having to copy the source code into the X.org repository. That sounds reasonable enough. Bear in mind on the other hand that I (more frequently than I like) see comments to the effect that other terminal emulators are more modern/flashy/etc. > So, X11R6.8 (or whatever it's called) could contain whatever released bits > that people wanted it to contain. I would certainly push to only include > software that the original authors *wanted* to be included in X and leave > out bits which those authors wanted to maintain and distributed on their > own. For the foreseeable future, I'm inclined to continue as I have with xterm - improving and maintaining it and working with groups that distribute it. -- Thomas E. Dickey http://invisible-island.net ftp://invisible-island.net
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