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From: harry@hpcvlx.cv.hp.com (Harry Phinney)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.hp
Subject: Re: Looking for HP(?) X11R3 display server bug
Message-ID: <101950064@hpcvlx.cv.hp.com>
Date: 30 Nov 89 00:12:55 GMT
References: <10434@venera.isi.edu>
Organization: Hewlett-Packard Co., Corvallis, OR, USA
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I've cut your questions up a bit, but I think I preserved the content.


> (does this (I mean the server, not the MOTIF stuff) affect much else than
> font naming?)

The "R3" changes for 7.0 are really minor, and you are correct that the
only really visible change is the font naming.  The 7.0 server also has
better performance that the 6.5 server, and it generally uses less
memory.


> But... at about the same time 7.0 with the X11R3 style server
> comes from HP, MIT will release X11R4, containing among
> other goodies a non-rectangular window extension...
> I will probably
> run the MIT server, and a mixture of MIT and HP clients.
> Tor Lillqvist, VTT/ATK

There's certainly nothing wrong with using the server distributed on the
MIT tape, but you should realize that we are not in a position to
provide support for it.  We are supplying a server for R4 specifically
for those customers who wish to take advantage of such features as the
shape extension, and are willing to suffer all the disadvantages of
using unsupported software.  For various reasons (primarily Starbase
support), our production servers are significantly different than those
distributed on the MIT tape.  We simply can't devote too much time to
maintaining the "free" MIT server.  I view the MIT distribution as a
developer's kit, with the customer-quality product delivered with the
HP-UX releases.

Harry Phinney