Date: Sat, 21 Oct 1995 01:44:59 -0600 From: Warner Losh <imp@village.org> To: =?KOI8-R?Q?=E1=CE=C4=D2=C5=CA_=FE=C5=D2=CE=CF=D7?= (aka Andrey A. Chernov, Black Mage) <ache@astral.msk.su> Cc: "Kaleb S. KEITHLEY" <kaleb@x.org>, Terry Lambert <terry@lambert.org>, hackers@freefall.freebsd.org Subject: Re: xterm dumps core Message-ID: <199510210744.BAA12213@rover.village.org> In-Reply-To: Your message of Thu, 19 Oct 1995 21:17:59 %2B0300
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: Your issue must be based on some statistics, i.e. somehow : approximately counts users who 1) upgrade to new system and : 2) don't upgrade their X. Here my thought on this subject. : Old 8859-1 locale names lives very short time (I naively follows X locale : naming convention when implement them). So user population : using old names is very small. And population who wan't : upgrade their X even smaller, moreover, solution for : them already exists: "upgrade your X". Personally, I'm unlikely to upgrade my X unless I have to. The X server I have now works, and I'm not inclinded to change unless forced to do so. The OS under it doesn't matter, and if I install a new OS that breaks something, that OS is broken. Period. I will not upgrade my X because of that, I will yell to have my OS fixed to work with the perfectly valid X that I had before. "Upgrade your X" is not an option for me, nor for many others. I have railed in the past on Linux groups because Linux tends to break the edges of binary compatibility often. I don't want to see FreeBSD do that at all. I don't care how the current squabble works itself out, so long as I am nor forced to upgrade my X release when I upgrade my OS release. Warner
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