[2419] in SIPB bug reports
Re: xcal in sipb locker
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Chris VanHaren)
Wed Jan 29 17:21:41 1992
To: eichin@MIT.EDU, bug-sipb@MIT.EDU
Cc: cfields@MIT.EDU, lavin@MIT.EDU
From: Chris VanHaren <vanharen@MIT.EDU>
Date: Wed, 29 Jan 92 17:20:19 GMT
> xcal is the name it has on the net (and X11/contrib), and it has been
> in the rtbin in the SIPB locker for months, so people with sipb before
> calendar in their paths would have already had trouble.
As a matter of fact, someone did complain about the problem on the RT to
me before, and I neglected to do anything about it at the time... my
fault on that one. And there has been at least one OLC question on it
that I know of.
> If his xcal is
> the only thing in the calendar/bin directories, then people should
> just attach it before sipb if they want that one.
Easy for you to say -- try explaining that to the poor clueless user
that suddenly finds that "xcal" is not the same thing that he has been
using for the past year (at least).
> I'll also note that the vax version in the calendar locker
> doesn't seem to work, and that there isn't a decmips or rs/6000
> version... [ah, I see the problem - his hasn't been recompiled since
> May 1990, so it doesn't have X libraries that support xauth; as far as
> I'm concerned, that qualifies as not working.]
The vax version works fine for me (and for lots of other people). I
don't know what your problem is, sorry. Can you give me more details?
I take (some of) the responsibility for the motif xcal not existing on
the RS/6000 or decmips. I inherited responsibility for this program,
though, and the sources are in a state of disarray, so it may be a while
before I can find the sources that were actually used to build the
binaries for the VAX and RT.
> _Mark_ <eichin@athena.mit.edu>
> MIT Student Information Processing Board
>
> ps. If Craig's is a motif version, why doesn't the name begin with m?
> :-) And the other complaint, of course is that if it's a motif
> version, I can't use it off campus, whereas xcal is in contrib on the
> R5 tape (and earlier, I think) and so is more commonly available.
Anyone that has Motif libs can use the program off-campus. I know, this
restricts the number of people that can compile it, but hey, it's free
source code. Besides, I can't see how that argues for renaming it, or
why that means that the "xcal" in the SIPB locker is "better".
(By the way, I took a quick look through contrib, in the x11r4, x11r5,
and xcontrib locker, as well as on export.lcs.mit.edu, and could only
find "xcalendar" -- an old program by Roman Budzianowski. Where exactly
did this one come from?)
-Chris.
