/usr/bin/xterm

Harold L Hunt II huntharo@msu.edu
Fri Apr 2 15:07:00 GMT 2004


luke.kendall@cisra.canon.com.au wrote:
> On  1 Apr, Igor Pechtchanski wrote:
> 
>> > I don't have time to fix this.  I would appreciate it if someone else 
>> > would grab the -src package for X-start-menu-icons via setup.exe and 
>> > work on fixing it; I don't want a half-assed untested patch either, I 
>> > want one that has been thoroughly tested (you know, tough stuff like 
>> > clicking at least one of the tree classes of shortcuts: /usr/bin X 
>> > programs, /usr/X11R6/bin X programs, and /usr/X11R6/bin terminal 
>> > programs) since the sort of changes required may break the other links 
>> > that the scripts create (this is part of the Catch-22 I was talking about). 
>>  
>> I don't recall any discussion or a heads-up that xterm now resides in 
>> /usr/bin...  Any particular reason for this decision? 
> 
> 
> I'm certainly interested to hear more.  I got some ridicule dumped on me
> (in my role of Cygwin evangelist) when I mentioned this to an old-time
> Unix guy here.

All of the old school X guys (Jim Gettys, Keith Packard, I think Kaleb 
Keithley, etc.) all say that /usr/X11R6 is an abomination and the sooner 
it goes away the better.

You can now go back to your old school Unix guy and tell him he needs to 
get with the times on what people in the X Window System community are 
advocating.  ;)

Harold



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