>>>> "sb" == SL Baur <steve(a)xemacs.org>
writes:
sb> Michael Sperber <sperber(a)informatik.uni-tuebingen.de> writes in
xemacs-beta(a)xemacs.org:
> My general stance is that it's a bad idea to cater to OS
fuckage in
> configure, because it will alleviate pressure to get the actual bug
> fixed.
sb> How are going to force Motif bugs to get fixed? As near as I can tell
sb> Motif has pretty much always been broken in some way or another.
Notwithstanding the general brokenness of Motif, this is really a
problem with IBM's fucked-up distribution of it. At least in theory
it's possible someone with a service contract will send a Problem
Report to IBM, and with some luck, it will get fixed.
Does anyone know why IBM insists on hacking and breaking MIT's X
before they ship it with AIX? It doesn't seem they add much if any
functionality, and the delays this incurs are impressive. They
replaced X11R5 by X11R6 only like what, half a year ago?
sb> Death to Motif. Good riddance to bad rubbish. I think it's a serious
sb> mistake defaulting to Motif support.
I like this idea a lot. Since this change would be trivial and not
really affect anything we've tested, couldn't we make it so for 21.0?
> BTW: We still do need a note in PROBLEMS about AIX X libXt,
don't we?
sb> That would be good.
Coming up.
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