[CF-Devel] It is time to get rid of xpms and xbms

[Mark Wedel]

On Wed, 23 May 2001, Bob Tanner wrote:
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      Is there resistence to this move?
     
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      If so, how about a cvs branch?
     
     
 There only needs to be a branch if the other formats are continued to
be worked on.

 Note that when something is deleted from cvs, it isn't truly deleted,
it just doesn't show up anymore.  So for example, if all the xbm and
xpm files are deleted, you could still do a cvs checkout -r rel-1-0-0
and get all the files, including xbm and xpm, as well as everything
else that is in the 1.0.0 release.

 One issue here is that even with a branch, presumably the older
images will not be included with the server (which does help
reduce the distribution size quite a bit), which means the clients
need to get the images themselves.  And this then poses problems for
new images for added archs/maps.

 Of course, if we go to iso, this probably becomes an even bigger issue,
as effectively the viewing area is tilted 45 degrees, making it
wider and taller than before, but with the same potential amount of
graphic content.