Official protest against bug 1060 / was: Re: Away for a

[mcnichol at austin.ibm.com]

Ok.  So Roland has put a lot of good work into this and would like 
his code in the release. He doesn't like the idea of a separate library, and
Jim doesn't like an extra dependency on a memory constrained device.

Another solution could be to add #ifdef's to the changes so that
the Xaw-XPrint code could easily be compiled out.

Dan


> From: Jim Gettys <Jim.Gettys at hp.com>
> 
> Roland,
> 
> To begin with, I'm sorry we were not aware of the situation
> earlier, and we need to work out a process so that this can get
> handled sooner.
> 
> The large issue in my mind (personally) is the introduction of a new
> significant size library dependency into Xaw, without the provision 
> to make it optional in the build.
> 
> Some of us work on footprint sensitive devices where adding
> more code isn't a viable option. (nor do we have printers anywhere
> nearby our iPAQ's).
> 
> I personally don't want to have to have an Xmu/Xmuu situation
> have to develop for the library, to avoid picking up the depencency,
> to recover space we literally don't have.
> 
> So some of us would have to do additional work to remove the
> dependency; I believe that it is incumbent on you, the person adding
> functionality, to make it possible to build without the requirement
> of picking up the dependency.
> 
> Others may have other concerns; this one is mine.
> 			Regards,
>                                 - Jim
>