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Daniel Stone
daniel at fooishbar.org
Sun Dec 12 14:10:02 PST 2004
On Sun, 2004-12-12 at 17:06 -0500, Kristian Høgsberg wrote:
> Adam Jackson wrote:
> > On Monday 06 December 2004 09:28, Egbert Eich wrote:
> >>That's not entirely true. We 'inherited' Xpm because nobody else feels
> >>responsible for it any more. Now we have to worry about all the security
> >>problems in this lib.
> >
> > So what you're saying is, we should push the Xpm security fixes to the copy
> > in /cvs/xlibs, and delete it from the monolith, so we don't have to repeat
> > the 6.8.1 release ever again.
> >
> > Anyone who objects to me doing this on HEAD has until (let's say) Wednesday
> > Dec 15 to complain. If we're serious about doing 6.9 as a modular release we
> > need to start evicting code from the monolith _now_.
>
> Is this the general way we're going with the libs when we modularize the
> tree? My impression was that we would start from the current monolithic
> tree and split that out into separate libs and apps.
Xpm is a special case in that it's totally dead code. I don't believe
there are actually any changes -- apart from the saga of continuing
security updates -- between the modular and monolithic versions.
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