New subpackage xfig-Xaw3d

Kevin Kofler kevin.kofler at chello.at
Sat Nov 17 18:52:01 UTC 2007


Hans de Goede <j.w.r.degoede <at> hhs.nl> writes:
> That can be done. As of recently I'm a co-maintainer of xfig, and I'm the one 
> who introduced the xfig-Xaw3d package, all 3 options:
> -Xaw3d only build
> -both, Xaw3d the default
> -both, Xaw the default
> 
> Are fine with me, I did things as they are now as xfig had a lot of bugs open 
> against them, so the latest release, besides adding an Xaw3d package also
> fixes a lot of bugs, thus its being pushed as an update for F-7 and F-8 too.
> And I didn't want this update to cause a widget set change, going from the
> principle of least surprise. But I can easily switch the default to Xaw3d for
> rawhide if people prefer that, or even make the rawhide package an Xaw3d only
> build.

I'd just switch to Xaw3d (only) for all branches. I don't think having 2 
versions built against different versions of the toolkit makes sense, and Xaw3d 
is clearly the better-looking one (looks only 10 years old rather than 
20 ;-) ).

        Kevin Kofler




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