On Jul 15, 2013 10:46 PM, "Alan Coopersmith" <[email protected]> wrote: > > On 07/14/13 01:33 PM, Thomas Dickey wrote: >> >> On Sun, Jul 14, 2013 at 09:45:01PM +0200, Matthieu Herrb wrote: >>> >>> Note however that as is luit is currently broken on OpenBSD. I had to >>> commit a patch to OpenBSD's xenocara to disable grantpt() check in >>> configure.ac to avoid picking the support for it that was added to >>> OpenBSD 5.3. I don't know yet if it's OpenBSD grantpt code that's >>> broken or its use in luit. >> >> >> fwiw, luit 2.0 works on OpenBSD > > > So does anyone remember why we still have two versions of luit? > > We happily deprecated X.Org's xterm in favor of Thomas's many years ago, > but somehow kept our own fork of luit in the process.
Since the only user of luit is xterm, I think it would make sense to deprecate X.org's version. Thomas clearly has more incentive to maintain it. When I worked on Linux from Scratch, our i18n guru declared that Thomas's version worked better than X.org's and we used his. Not sure how the situation is now. Dan
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