Re: New Project (was RE: X client wrapper for Win apps?)

[Nicholas Wourms <nwourms at yahoo dot com>]

--- Harold L Hunt II <huntharo@msu.edu> wrote:
> Any such development would need to occur in a branch that could 
> eventually be merged back in if it proves stable, useful, well 
> modularized, and actively maintained.  If not, I'll just forget
> that 
> anyone ever talked about doing it in the first place.  That's why
> it 
> needs to move off list, even if it ends up being essentially a
> feature 
> of Cygwin/XFree86 rather than a seperate program/library.

Harold,
I don't buy that argument, as I'm sure anyone else who is developing
features for Cygwin/XFree isn't directly commiting their changes to
HEAD on xfree86.org.  Thus, most people would have their own seperate
branch from which they would submit changes to be merged into the
main branch.  I'm sure the fellow working on xwinclip has a local
branch that he uses.  The point is that for once we are having a
lively discussion on this list and I don't see why a new list is
necessary.  Just makes life harder for everyone.  It isn't like this
list gets that much volume anyhow.  Discussion is *good*, despite
your contention that the only thing that should be said is "Here's
the patch, what do you think?"  Sometimes planning is necessary and
getting input from the community vital to properly implementing a
feature.  I still don't see why you are so adverse to people talking
about haw nice it would be to have x or y, especially when the
discussion is serious.

Cheers,
Nicholas

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