# To subscribers of the xforms list from David Scriven <davidwriter@yahoo.com> :
I agree wholeheartedly - it is extremely frustrating
(and wastes an inordinate amount of time) to create
code on one platform and then to find that it doesn't
work when compiled on another because they have a
different fix-level - this is especially true of
things like image handling that were included in the
0.89 release. I've got to the stage where I regard
everything introduced in 0.89 as too unreliable to
use.
It is even more frustrating to know from this forum
that some of the bugs have been fixed, but not to have
access to the updated code.
XForms has the capability of being a boon to the
programmer that has no wish or need to deal with the
complexities of the X windows system, but as things
stand now, I could not recommend it to other
programmers.
Please EITHER sort out the open source debacle OR do
as Peter requests - bring all the releases to the same
fix level.
David Scriven
--- Peter S Galbraith <GalbraithP@dfo-mpo.gc.ca>
wrote:
> # To subscribers of the xforms list from Peter S
> Galbraith <GalbraithP@dfo-mpo.gc.ca> :
>
> I've seen many messages lately about fixes going
> into the 0.89 tree
> which will take much too long to migrate to commonly
> used Linux
> distributions.
>
> Another example: I was looking at the status of a
> Debian bug:
>
> http://bugs.debian.org/118136
>
> in which I'm asking the XFMail Debian maintainer to
> build against XForms
> 0.89 instead of 0.88. It turns out that XFMail
> maintainers are using
> undocumented fl_fdesc variable which was in 0.88 but
> not in early 0.89
> fixlevels. See:
>
>
>
http://slappy.org/pipermail/xfmail/2002-January/002883.html
>
> I'd like to propose that T.C. and Steve find a few
> people they can trust
> to build new updated binaries for various Linux
> architectures
> (e.g. alpha, i386, ia64, m68k, powerpc, s390, sparc)
> as well as other
> major OSes and upload them to
> ftp://ncmir.ucsd.edu/pub/xforms/
> (I can do Linux/i386 as can many readers on this
> list)
>
> A large percentage of the XForms user base would
> then have updated
> libraries. Yes, it would be easy to accomplish this
> goal if XForms were
> open-sourced. But is that _really_ going to happen?
> If it's not going
> to happen, then why not at least try to update the
> binaries? I think
> that the always imminent open-source release is
> hampering the
> availability of updated binaries. Heck, even making
> the sources
> available under a super restrictive license would be
> better than no
> sources like now. At least we'd all have the same
> code base then.
>
> Don't read this as a negative message regarding the
> not-happening
> open-source release, see it as a call for updated
> binaries for all and
> fewer bugs for mankind.
>
> Comments?
>
> Peter
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