From owner-freebsd-hackers Thu Oct 19 13:16:02 1995 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) id NAA00431 for hackers-outgoing; Thu, 19 Oct 1995 13:16:02 -0700 Received: from sequent.kiae.su (sequent.kiae.su [144.206.136.6]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) with SMTP id NAA00426 for ; Thu, 19 Oct 1995 13:15:57 -0700 Received: by sequent.kiae.su id AA09637 (5.65.kiae-2 ); Fri, 20 Oct 1995 00:06:52 +0400 Received: by sequent.KIAE.su (UUMAIL/2.0); Fri, 20 Oct 95 00:06:51 +0300 Received: (from ache@localhost) by ache.dialup.demos.ru (8.6.11/8.6.9) id XAA02724; Thu, 19 Oct 1995 23:06:00 +0300 To: "Kaleb S. KEITHLEY" Cc: hackers@freefall.FreeBSD.org References: <199510191930.PAA02590@exalt.x.org> In-Reply-To: <199510191930.PAA02590@exalt.x.org>; from "Kaleb S. KEITHLEY" at Thu, 19 Oct 1995 15:30:23 EST Message-Id: Organization: Olahm Ha-Yetzirah Date: Thu, 19 Oct 1995 23:06:00 +0300 (MSK) X-Mailer: Mail/@ [v2.40 FreeBSD] From: =?KOI8-R?Q?=E1=CE=C4=D2=C5=CA_=FE=C5=D2=CE=CF=D7?= (aka Andrey A. Chernov, Black Mage) X-Class: Fast Subject: Re: xterm dumps core Lines: 31 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Length: 1448 Sender: owner-hackers@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk In message <199510191930.PAA02590@exalt.x.org> Kaleb S. KEITHLEY writes: >If you choose to do so, and gratuitously break backwards compatibility >with prior releases of FreeBSD as a result, that is inexcusable. If >your own experience with xterm didn't teach you something about how >important backwards compatibility is, then I will have no sympathy for >you when 2.1 is released and people have problems. What you count as "prior releases" is ONLY ONE INTERIM RELEASE: 2.0.5! 8859-1 locale isn't supported in 2.0 yet. 2.0.5 not treated as full release, it is only short term solution, so please stop talking about "prior releases" and of incredible amount of their users who wants backward compatibility. >> X must provide translation from valid XPG3 names to their >> internal names. >The X Consortium Sample Implementation provides translations for names >that are used in released versions of operating systems. There is no >requirement to do any more than that. As I indicated previously, when >2.1 is real, I will consider adding your new names to the locale.alias >file in the X Consortium Sample Implementation. Well, sounds good. -- Andrey A. Chernov : And I rest so composedly, /Now, in my bed, ache@astral.msk.su : That any beholder /Might fancy me dead - http://dt.demos.su/~ache : Might start at beholding me, /Thinking me dead. RELCOM Team,FreeBSD Team : E.A.Poe From "For Annie" 1849