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[Thomas Dickey]

On Fri, Jun 29, 2012 at 08:21:04PM +0100, Glynn Clements wrote:
> 
> Alan Corey wrote:
> 
> > I'm just plinking around after having read the early chapters of the
> > O'Reilly volumes 4a and 6a plus some Athena and Xlib stuff. I was
> > itching to try some things.  For my background see
> > http://ab1jx.webs.com  For graphics programming I've mostly worked in
> > Turbo Pascal and Delphi.
> 
> Okay, so you've progressed from the 1980's to the 1990's ;)
> 
> I wouldn't advise putting too much effort into Xt/Xaw stuff; they've
> fallen so far into disuse that if X.org shipped a totally
> non-functional version of one of those libraries, it might take a year
> before anyone actually noticed.

...in contrast to the usual 6-9 months(*) that it takes Xorg hackers to
notice that they've broken something more critical.

(*) not talking about build failures - a week or two seems to suffice there

-- 
Thomas E. Dickey <dickey at invisible-island.net>
http://invisible-island.net
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