[1658] in Release_7.7_team
Re: More on the default visual issue.
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Abby Fox)
Thu Feb 11 19:06:33 1999
To: Bill Cattey <wdc@MIT.EDU>
Cc: release-team@MIT.EDU, f_l@MIT.EDU, owls@MIT.EDU, alexp@MIT.EDU
In-Reply-To: "[376] in f_l"
Date: Thu, 11 Feb 1999 19:06:24 EST
From: Abby Fox <ajfox@MIT.EDU>
Hmmm...Well, in the meantime, we'd already passed along the first
round of collected wisdom to thg, and he wrote back thus:
> I am sympathetic to your concerns about supporting legacy
> applications and maintaining the integrity of the Athena
> environment. The broad user base and hardware variations make these
> goals significant challenges. While I am not giving up yet on the
> idea of adding some flexibility to the Athena environment for color
> depths, I agree that ArcView should be recoded to handle this right.
> Now that the ESRI site license is in effect, MIT may now be a
> weighty enough ESRI customer to urge this change. I can look into
> who to contact, but it probably makes sense for someone from
> Academic Computing Services to apply some pressure here. I doubt
> that ESRI will make this change without some prodding. I would
> appreciate your advice on how to proceed.
Alex was just about to fire something off to ESRI when I alerted him
to your mail; now he plans going to hold off on that pending further
discussion...
--Abby
