xc/programs considered harmful

[Daniel Stone]

On Fri, 2004-12-17 at 08:30 -0800, Stuart Kreitman wrote:
> While I share your preference for removing code as one of the
> purest forms of programming ;-), I do not understand the motivation
> for this request.  I use some of these programs all the time, sometimes
> tweaking or borrowing for writing cheapo test cases and
> would not appreciate having yet another broken pointer in my life.
> 
> If by "maintaining" you mean bug fixing, are there any bugs
> recorded against any of these? (surely there must be some on xterm
> in its long and speckled life).

Even just someone standing up for them and offering to maintain them and
actively pursue their care and feeding.

I understand that xeyes/xlogo/xedit/etc are all neat and whatever, but I
don't see their place in the monolithic tree, and I think we can set a
great precedent by moving the maintainence of these tools to the modular
tree, if they are still required, and then that can become the canonical
upstream source.

-d