Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!yale!cmcl2!nrl-cmf!wicinski
From: wicinski@nrl-cmf.UUCP (Tim Wicinski)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: Re: R3, or Where have all the flamers gone?
Message-ID: <137@nrl-cmf.UUCP>
Date: 9 Nov 88 06:26:03 GMT
References: <8811072007.AA10984@EXPO.LCS.MIT.EDU>
Organization: NRL Connection Machine Facility, Washington, DC
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In article <8811072007.AA10984@EXPO.LCS.MIT.EDU>, jim@EXPO.LCS.MIT.EDU (Jim Fulton) writes:
> 
> Okay, it has been entirely too quiet out there on XPERT on the topic of R3.
> 
> I'm probably going to be sorry, but....
> 
> What do people like?  What don't they like (try to be at least a little
>reasonable on this one)?  Try to stay off little details that have been already
> been discussed, like performance of particular platforms.  :-)
> 

the main problem in the building of the core is that if you want to put the 
fonts and rgb databse someplace else (like /usr/local/lib) you have to
remember about server/include/site.h! no where in imake/imake.includes
is that mentioned (maybe in server/ddx/<make>/README), but you have to
track that down, and shove the right stuff in site.def. DO something
about that - make ALL possible choices in imake.includes, not 95% of
them. sort of defeats the purpose...

That, and the xterm and vi bug (major lame-o), and the xman bugs are the
most noticable/painful. 

xmh - adding buttons for the rest of mh stuff like burst, packf. (i'll
probably add burst myself when i get chance...whenever that is)

contrib distribution - here's something I'm not sure about - does the
contributed distribution contain the same version of the stuff on expo
in the ~contrib directory? I mean, why should i blow away ANOTHER disk
when all I might want is a lousy window manager or some screen
previewer.  everything else i might want when i get around to getting
disk space. 

...just bitchin' and moanin'....
tim wicinski, 
naval research labs