Re: orphaning dx (OpenDX)

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On Wednesday, 17 February 2016 at 15:00, Richard Shaw wrote:
> On Wed, Feb 17, 2016 at 7:54 AM, Dominik 'Rathann' Mierzejewski <
> dominik@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 
> > Hello,
> > I'm orphaning the dx and dx-samples in rawhide.
> >
> > It is FTBFS in rawhide due to stricter checks in gcc-6, the upstream
> > is dead (or actually it was never there, ever since IBM released the
> > code), and the code itself is ancient (1999). I don't use it and I don't
> > know anyone who does, so it's not really worth my effort to fix it
> > to build with gcc-6. I've been keeping the code building (and running,
> > mostly) for almost 10 years now and I think it's time for someone
> > else to take over, if they're interested.
> 
> 
> If no one is using it then it's not worth the effort but in the packages
> I've had that have the narrowing conversion issues they have been
> relatively easy to fix.

Well, in this case, an array of char is initialised with values > 128
and the passed to XCreatePixmapFromBitmapData, which requires a char *
parameter, so it's not trivial (at least to me).

Regards,
Dominik
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