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[Kirill Ponomarew]

Hi,

On Mon, Aug 23, 2004 at 11:36:33AM +0000, Alexey Dokuchaev wrote:
 
> BTW, since xorg-clients provide xterm (as it been for years with XFree86),
> what was the reason to separate xterm from it?  Or is it so special client
> that user might want to do something about it (i.e., upgrade) separately
> from the rest of xorg-* ports?  For me, xterm is just another reference
> implementation like twm, xclock, etc, taking into account that there're many
> other terminal emulators available in ports (aterm, eterm, konsole, etc).

xterm development is running independently from XFree86, with
frequent new releases.  xterm version supplied with
XFree86/xorg is pretty old one.

-Kirill
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