libXaw3d hosting on freedesktop

Matt Turner mattst88 at gmail.com
Mon Aug 15 20:35:59 PDT 2011


On Mon, Aug 1, 2011 at 2:13 PM, Alan Coopersmith
<alan.coopersmith at oracle.com> wrote:
> On 07/30/11 18:00, Matt Turner wrote:
>> Xaw3d apparently has no upstream, anywhere. It's unfortunately still
>> used by a couple of applications.
>>
>> I guess it'd be nice to get it moved to xorg/lib/libXaw3d at some point too.
>
> +1 for that, though if it was possible to share common code with libXaw
> (perhaps by making Xaw3d another variant/subdir in the libXaw git repo),
> that would be nice too.

There's a lot of common code, but there are enough differences that
merging them would be a bit of work, and it being Xaw and all makes it
hard to devote much time to.

I've filed a bug to get xorg/lib/libXaw3d created:
https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=40112

Matt


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