[Info-vax] openvms and xterm

[Dan Cross]

In article <uvu7ra$33rl6$1 at dont-email.me>,
Arne Vajhøj  <arne at vajhoej.dk> wrote:
>On 4/19/2024 11:57 AM, Dan Cross wrote:
>> In article <uvtvhs$31urj$1 at dont-email.me>,
>> Arne Vajhøj  <arne at vajhoej.dk> wrote:
>>> On 4/19/2024 6:15 AM, motk wrote:
>>>> On 19/4/24 13:09, Grant Taylor wrote:
>>>>> PuTTY, X11, XTerm, OpenVMS, yes they are all still actively maintained
>>>>> and still work well.
>>>>
>>>> X11 is literally abandoned, apart from the X11 wayland bits. Please be
>>>> real.
>>>
>>> I guess it depends on what you really mean by abandoned.
>>>
>>> Is the X11 software still being maintained? Yes it is.
>> 
>> This is factually accurate, but the pace of maintenance
>> is glacial.  I'd say it's on life support, but not much
>> more than that.  The assertion was that X11 maintenance
>> is active; that's only true in so far that some modicum
>> of it exists.
>
>People can take a look:
>
>https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/xorg/lib/libx11/-/commits/master
>
>https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/xorg/xserver/-/commits/master

They can also look at the number of outstanding bugs that
are not getting fixed.

	- Dan C.