New subpackage xfig-Xaw3d

Patrice Dumas pertusus at free.fr
Sat Nov 17 10:46:51 UTC 2007


On Sat, Nov 17, 2007 at 11:37:37AM +0100, Hans de Goede wrote:
>
> 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 personnally would prefer 
-both, Xaw3d the default
to be able to use the Xaw interface if there are issues with Xaw3d,
while having the Xaw3d as default to be tested.

--
Pat




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