swick@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Ralph R. Swick) (03/16/88)
> Could someone clarify the status of the `contrib' directory on zap? > > From what I can tell offhand, the following things which are still > available on zap have been included with X.V11.R2: > vtobdf.shar clue andrew puzzle.tar pex.encoding Xr11 Cleaning up redundant stuff from zap.mit.edu:/contrib has not been high on our priority list. It probably should be, as the X11R2 distribution contains fixes from some of the contributors. I would like to take the attitute that things in /contrib are the responsibility of the contributor, including removing a submission when it is obsolete.
swick@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Ralph R. Swick) (03/16/88)
Oh yes, as to providing a directory hierarchy for old versions of things, I believe that is un-necessary and would only compound confusion. Dealing with bug reports would be a nightmare. Besides, zap doesn't have the disk space.