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From: jim@EXPO.LCS.MIT.EDU (Jim Fulton)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: Re: All that stupid contrib stuff
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Date: 13 Jan 89 19:40:43 GMT
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> > I'll reiterate my suggestion here: it is my firm recommendation that
> > the X Window System project reject out of hand any contributed software
> > that doesn't have an Imakefile and compile relatively trivially on at
> > least *some* system.
> 
> I am not one to *flame* anti-social net.bevahiour, but I feel compelled to
> do so this time. First off, you're flaming the X Consortium

As one of the people foisting imake on the world, I can assure you that no heat
was felt at this end.  While his manner of distribution left something to be
desired, it was useful.  I strongly urge people to use imake.

Casey's conditions, couched in less draconian wording, were almost the
requirements for R3....  We will probably be pickier in R4 than we were in R3.


							Jim Fulton
							MIT X Consortium