On Wed, Sep 03, 2003 at 04:17:41PM -0500, Branden Robinson wrote: > tag 208493 + wontfix > thanks > > On Wed, Sep 03, 2003 at 03:55:56PM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Debian Bug report logs - #208493 > > > xterm: openi18n patch > > I'm afraid that I don't regard that as "clean". The reverse. > > Tagging this bug as "wontfix" pending further discussion, then. I do > not want to fork from Mr. Dickey's xterm too badly.
There's a lot of discussion that could be made - the patch is based on X11R6.1 xterm. So one would have to study it to see how to add whatever features it provides that XFree86 xterm does not. I reviewed it last year, found that it added bugs that I could demonstrate with vttest. (And rather than fix some of the problems that I noticed with X11R6.3 xterm, the resulting Solaris 9 xterm has a bad memory leak in resizing). Some of the symbol names in the patch demonstrate to me that the patch's author was moderately familiar with XFree86 xterm. Studying the patch itself, I noticed more than one place where it did not do error-checking. The documentation doesn't state _what_ it does, only that it does something better. Code Set Independence, as I found by reading mailing list is not actually implemented in this patch (it's not well-defined, but from the author's discussion, this patch cannot achieve it - he had, as I recall, more ambitious plans which are not reflected in the patch). This is not to say that there's nothing there - but making a good job of it will take more work by me than was done by the patch's author. -- Thomas E. Dickey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://dickey.his.com ftp://dickey.his.com -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
