[GRASS5] XDRIVER

[Markus Neteler]

On Mon, Apr 09, 2001 at 08:36:58PM +0100, Glynn Clements wrote:
> 
> I'd like to suggest integrating the new XDRIVER code into the source
> tree.
> 
> The current mechanism of having "configure" modify several files
> (which are under CVS control) suffers from a couple of problems:
> 
> 1. Running "cvs diff" includes the differences between the *.new
> versions of the files and the CVS versions. This is a bit of a
> nuisance if you're doing general tidying (minor changes to many
> scattered files), where it's simpler to diff the whole tree than to
> figure out exactly which files need to be diff'd.
> 
> 2. Anyone running "cvs commit" without thinking will overwrite the CVS
> versions (fifo?) with whichever version is in their build tree at the
> time (probably sockets).
> 
> If I hadn't encountered (1) first, I probably would have encountered
> (2) instead.

Hi all,

I agree with Glynn. Perhaps we only keep the fifo version in a
subdirectory along with the established mechanism to activate it
(Bernhard wants to keep fifos for old platforms) and put the
sockets version into the default place. I guess that 99% of users
want sockets.

Any objections?

Regards

 Markus

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