On Fri, Jun 29, 2012 at 08:21:04PM +0100, Glynn Clements wrote: > > Alan Corey wrote: > > > I'm just plinking around after having read the early chapters of the > > O'Reilly volumes 4a and 6a plus some Athena and Xlib stuff. I was > > itching to try some things. For my background see > > http://ab1jx.webs.com For graphics programming I've mostly worked in > > Turbo Pascal and Delphi. > > Okay, so you've progressed from the 1980's to the 1990's ;) > > I wouldn't advise putting too much effort into Xt/Xaw stuff; they've > fallen so far into disuse that if X.org shipped a totally > non-functional version of one of those libraries, it might take a year > before anyone actually noticed.
...in contrast to the usual 6-9 months(*) that it takes Xorg hackers to notice that they've broken something more critical. (*) not talking about build failures - a week or two seems to suffice there -- Thomas E. Dickey <dic...@invisible-island.net> http://invisible-island.net ftp://invisible-island.net
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