libXpm future (Re: File encoding is now UTF-8)

[Donnie Berkholz]

On Sun, 2004-12-12 at 09:26 +0100, Matthieu Herrb 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_.
> 
> I strongly object for now. Breaking the monolitic tree is not the 
> solution to push work on the modular tree, unless you have a working 
> alternative.

I don't see why this has to break the monolithic tree. Add a dependency
on the modular Xpm, and cause whatever required Xpm in the monolithic
tree to use the modular one instead.
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