(James, you're currently not subscribed to the xwpe mailing list and therefore aren't permitted to post.) James wrote: > On Sat, 30 Jan 1999, Dennis Payne wrote: > > (I decided to take a break from my computer game and spent last night > > ripping apart xwpe. I managed to split the curses/termcap and X11 functions > > into separate shared libraries that way the curses version doesn't require > > installing X. It is extremely quick and dirty and requires dl* functions > > which aren't available on all unixes so it still needs work. No one has > > ever complained to me about this but I always hated that RedHat shipped > > a non-X11 xwpe package but it requires the X11 libraries to run.) > > Ah.. that sounds good. Especially because people like Redhat etc. can make > a *real* non-X11 package. Is this change going into the next release? It > really makes me wish I knew more about C programming, because I'd help. I > have considered becoming the Debian maintainer for xwpe, because I > remember seeing how it is orphaned.. I don't have the time right now > though to learn about the maintainer system and such though. I may spend a > weekend sometime and learn about it. If I do I'll inform Dennis and the > list. My current plan is to put it in the next release. However, it is currently possible to build a *real* non-X11 package. Simple add -DNO_XWINDOWS but RedHat doesn't build it that way. (Or at least it is usually possible, I don't always check it before making a release so it might break every once in a while.) I do think that this solution is better though. I'm willing to put a debian package on the web page if anyone builds one. I wish there was more communication with the debian group. Every once in a while I search for xwpe on dejanews and find debian bug reports/fixes for xwpe. (They are mainly 1.4.2 so they likely don't know I'm maintaining it but I haven't bothered investigating the matter.) Dennis Payne [EMAIL PROTECTED]
