Subject: Bug#4269: xosview has only XOSView as application resource file

From: [email-masked] (David Frey)
Date: Mon, 26 Aug 96 22:24 MET DST

>> Xosview only reads the file XOSView (and ~/.Xdefaults) when evaluating 
>> its X resources. It does this by doing all the reading by foot (calling
>> XrmGetFileDatabase() etc.). 
>> This is IMO the wrong way to do it; the application should use 
>> XtGetApplicationResources() (as xsysinfo does it). 
>
>You're absolutely right.
>
>The upstream maintainer disagrees (well, he agrees, but doesn't want
>to change it, AFAIK).

Oh, bad news.

>do you want me to 
I do not want you anything :) , but

>  1 move xosview to 'contrib', and stop maintaining it
>  2 just go on maintaining a broken xosview?

i'd vote for 2.