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Re: PMF license / was: Re: [Xprint] Re: X Strike Force XOrg SVN commit: r19 -inxorg/trunk/debian: . scripts



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Felix Schulte wrote:
| Fabio Massimo Di Nitto wrote:
|

|> Since the xprint-org package is anyway maintained outside the xfree86
|> tree AND considering that the whole purpose of these new X.org packages
|> is to split the tree as much as possible, I suggest that we can just
|> stop shipping the xprint code from x.org tree, since there is absolutely
|> no point in shipping it twice and maintaing it twice.
|
| Urgh.
| The X.org tree and the xprint-org are now coming from the same CVS
| repository as annouced on the xprint.mozdev.org front page. However I
| assume that both will continue to have different functionality, X.org
| version being the normal version, xprint-org being the development
| version or something like that.

Given what Drew wrote in another mail in this thread there is no point.
They come from the same CVS and Drew never uploaded a development snapshot.

| Fabio: What about making Drew Parsons the maintainer of both versions
| just for the case that you can't handle it? :)

That's up to Drew and not to me.

| I disagree :)
| Both packages should be seperate as both have different functionality
| (one example: One of the Xprt servers now has OpenGL support which is a
| *BIG* reason for us to drop our current Postscript hacking efforts and
| switch completely over to Xprint!)

What about our users? Which package are they suppose to use by default?
Isn't this option confusing for them?

Fabio

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