Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!wuarchive!uwm.edu!bionet!arisia!roo!janssen From: janssen@parc.xerox.com (Bill Janssen) Newsgroups: comp.windows.x Subject: Re: WANTED: Faster X server for Sun4 w/GX Message-ID: Date: 3 Oct 90 02:07:01 GMT References: <1990Sep26.193716.17671@tandem.com> <5454@mitech.com> Sender: news@parc.xerox.com Organization: Xerox PARC, Palo Alto, CA Lines: 23 In-reply-to: gjc@mitech.com's message of 1 Oct 90 06:59:58 GMT In article <5454@mitech.com> gjc@mitech.com writes: Given a quick and dirty hack posted only for a subset of SUN machines why would "other kinds of machines and displays" be an issue? The garbage posted affects a part of the source tree that is included in the make for several kinds of machines. It is not protected by #ifdefs. It contains several assumptions about environments that are not globally valid. If a "naive" user were to apply it in our environment here, it would break about a third of our workstations, all of them Sun-4 SunOS 4 machines. If the garbage made some rudimentary checks about its run-time environment, and affect only files in the ddx/sun directory, I'd have said nothing about it. Even so, the fact that *I* wish people wouldn't post this kind of garbage doesn't mean that *you* shouldn't enjoy it; no accounting for tastes. Bill -- Bill Janssen janssen@parc.xerox.com (415) 494-4763 Xerox Palo Alto Research Center 3333 Coyote Hill Road, Palo Alto, California 94304