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From: moraes@cs.toronto.edu (Mark Moraes)
Subject: Re: X11 R4
Message-ID: <90Jan4.214513est.2202@neat.cs.toronto.edu>
Organization: Department of Computer Science, University of Toronto
References: <1990Jan4.002745.1079@Neon.Stanford.EDU> <706@alias.UUCP>
Date: 5 Jan 90 02:45:30 GMT
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chk@alias.UUCP (C. Harald Koch) writes:
>Who cares? :-)

We don't care either, but some people don't want to go near Imakefiles
with 10 metre bargepoles :-)

>This means that you can get X11R4 right away, *and* you have source so you
>can fix things...

Some people don't want to go near the source code with 10 metre barge
poles :-) It's much nicer to pay your vendor money to worry about the
problems for you, no? Us, we're crazy -- we like source code...

>Of course if you don't have time or energy to support X yourself, then you
>will have to wait for SGI to get around to porting and testing R4.

Make that time, energy and disk space. Lots of disk space.  The full
source distribution for R4 clocks in at 150M of source. Probably add
another 150M if you want to compile it. Of course, of the src, only 45M
is the MIT supported distribution (which is what SGI would probably
supply, anyway)

But there's a lot of interesting stuff in the 105M of contrib --
clients, and toolkits -- especially Andrew and InterViews.

	Mark
---
"No..... Noo...... Ahhhh.......
Quick!! Lock up your disks. Hide any free space..... A new version
of X is coming!  A new version of X is coming....." -- anonymous member
of CSRI systems staff, on hearing of the imminent release of X.V11R4