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Received: by minnie.vk1xwt.ampr.org with NNTP id AA5188 ; Tue, 22 Dec 92 08:01:08 EST Xref: sserve comp.windows.x.i386unix:69 comp.unix.bsd:9171 Newsgroups: comp.windows.x.i386unix,comp.unix.bsd Path: sserve!manuel.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!sgiblab!pacbell.com!att-out!cbnewsj!dwex From: dwex@cbnewsj.cb.att.com (david.e.wexelblat) Subject: Re: [386BSD] Xfree86, XS3 Mouse configuration Organization: AT&T Date: Sat, 19 Dec 1992 00:56:59 GMT Message-ID: <1992Dec19.005659.6114@cbnewsj.cb.att.com> References: <1992Dec17.175453.29962@cbnewsj.cb.att.com> <1992Dec18.051723.26180@netcom.com> <1992Dec18.230232.22311@rwwa.COM> Lines: 41 In article <1992Dec18.230232.22311@rwwa.COM> witr@rwwa.com writes: > In article <1992Dec18.051723.26180@netcom.com>, > hasty@netcom.com (Amancio Hasty Jr) writes: > > | Generally, speaking I am the only person supporting XS3 for 386bsd > | and very few have benn problems reported. At any rate, in the future > | just mail me. You will probably get a relevant answer to your problems > | or questions. > > Nonetheless, there *are* a lot of who are eagerly awaiting your folding > your code into Xfree86. I sincerely hope you aren't planning to go-it-alone > forever due to some tiff or something with the Xfree86 crowd. > > Everyone would benefit from a unified server code base, and at least some > (me) are suffering from the creeping balkanization of the code. > > -- > Robert Withrow, Tel: +1 617 598 4480, Fax: +1 617 598 4430, Net: witr@rwwa.COM > R.W. Withrow Associates, 21 Railroad Ave, Swampscott MA 01907-1821 USA I hate to point this out, since I'm one of the major ones pushing Amancio to do just this (:->), but... Amancio is under no obligation to do this. His code and XFree86 are both available to anyone. You (collective you - the community in general) can always do it yourselves. People kept asking for SVR3 shared libraries, and we kept saying "do it yourself". Finally someone stepped up and did it (one of the things coming in the next release). There's no doubt that Amancio and the other folks he's working with are the best qualified to get this merge done. But they're certainly not the ONLY ones capable of doing it. I'll get off my soapbox now. -- David Wexelblat <dwex@mtgzfs3.att.com> (908) 957-5871 AT&T Bell Laboratories, 200 Laurel Ave - 3F-428, Middletown, NJ 07748 "The meaning of life? That's simple. Try to be happy, try not to hurt other people, and hope to fall in love." -- Mallory Keaton