Xterm, rxvt, mrxvt, etc....

Thomas Dickey dickey@his.com
Sun May 6 20:50:00 GMT 2007


On Sun, 6 May 2007, Thorsten Kampe wrote:

> * Thomas Dickey (Sun, 6 May 2007 13:36:31 -0400 (EDT))
>> On Sun, 6 May 2007, Thorsten Kampe wrote:
>>> You are confusing things. Quoting you: '"support" is relative. There's
>>> apparently no X maintainer [...]'. If you don't 'care for the role of
>>> "cygwin maintainer"' then that's obviously nonsense as X is maintained
>>> upstream.
>>
>> not at all: X upstream doesn't maintain the Cygwin X server.
>> (nothing's preventing them from doing that, but it's not the same as
>> actually doing it).
>>
>> Again, if there were an upstream _maintainer_ for rxvt (the point of this
>> thread), they'd have done something useful with the win32 bits mentioned.
>
> Why would the upstream rxvt maintainer support ("do something useful")
> with the Cygwin rxvt port when the X upstream maitainer doesn't?!

Note that I underlined _maintainer_.

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Thomas E. Dickey
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