Date: Thu, 24 Oct 1996 18:48:54 -0700 From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@time.cdrom.com> To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) Cc: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.org (FreeBSD-current users), deischen@iworks.InterWorks.org (Daniel M. Eischen), jdc@xinside.com Subject: Re: Experiences with CDE for FreeBSD Message-ID: <16794.846208134@time.cdrom.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Fri, 25 Oct 1996 02:36:14 %2B0200." <199610250036.CAA05824@uriah.heep.sax.de>
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> Well, the Xinside folks seem to have problems with install scripts... > The install script that came with their Motif has been totally > revamped by Jordan by that time, and still, their tarballs suffered > from some severe oddities (wrong permissions, duplicate files). Yeah, even there I'm afraid that they totally screwed the prefix directory handling. What they shipped was *not* what I gave them, and the guy who was handling the bundling just weened and patched my script towards the end there. Frankly, I think he did it all in way too much of a hurry - the level of QC was not what it should have been. > It looks they had also better passed on CDE for an alpha test... They sent me a copy which got delayed for a long time in the machinery and I finally loaded for the first time just last week. They know that the CDE installer does need some work, and hopefully they'll give me a chance to work with them in crafting their next generation install. :-) They could have avoided some of the Motif PRs they got if their release engineer had actually used the stuff I sent him in its original form. :( Jordan
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