Subject: Re: NOTICE: pcvt on its death bed
To: Roger Brooks <R.S.Brooks@liverpool.ac.uk>
From: Herb Peyerl <hpeyerl@beer.org>
List: current-users
Date: 06/06/2000 08:40:13
Roger Brooks <R.S.Brooks@liverpool.ac.uk>  wrote:
 > >Tim Walls wrote:
 > >> > If their are no significant issues raised by Saturday night (11JUN2000
 > >> > 0000Z) -- that is, PRs giving detailed information on situations where
 > >> > pcvt works and wscons does not, hearsay and vague comments will not be
 > >> > accepted -- pcvt will be removed from the i386 port permanently.
 > >> 
 > When wscons appeared I had a look at it and found that the code would need
 > major surgery to do the same thing because on those keys where some shifts
 > are recognised a different keysym is produced and the shift state is not
 > passed through to the function which defines the output strings.  The
 > fundamental problem is that the core wscons code makes assumptions about
 > which shift states will be recognised on which keys, rather than passing a
 > keysym and shift state to the terminal personality code so that it can do
 > what it wants.

So you'll note that Charles said "PRs giving detailed information on situations
where pcvt works and wscons does not"... So if you don't file a PR detailing
your pcvt feature that doesn't work on wscons, then your comments will not be
heard.