Roland Mainz wrote:
>> Xprint was originally created by the X Consortium under contract to the
>> Open Group to serve as the printing backend for the CDE 2.1 release.
>> Sun integrated Xprint into Solaris with the upgrade to X11R6.4 in
>> Solaris 7 11/99, but never integrated most of the CDE or Motif support
>> to use Xprint.
>
> Sometimes I still wish to know why this was never done - it created a
> lot more trouble than simply doing the update to CDE2.x ... ;-(
The only reason I ever got was that Sun had added all the features wanted
by the majority of our customers to CDE 1.x already, and thus there was
no business case justifying the expense required to move to CDE 2.x - i.e.
it was a business decision, not an architectural/technical one, and is
off-topic here.
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-Alan Coopersmith- alan.coopersmith at sun.com
Sun Microsystems, Inc. - X Window System Engineering
