[mcclim-devel] mcclim destorys clx on ACL 6.2

[Mike McDonald]

>To: mcclim-devel at common-lisp.net
>Date: Fri, 5 May 2006 00:37:54 +0200
>From: Max-Gerd Retzlaff
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>Hello,
>
>after having checked out, built and tested cvs mcclim of two months,
>one months, 45 days, 37 days, and 41 days ago I've found the commit
>that has caused my CLX breakage: "Fix (temporary hack) to use file
>sockets in CLX on ACL": http://article.gmane.org/gmane.lisp.mcclim.cvs/418
>
>The comment in this patch says:
>
>+;;; XXX CLX in ACL doesn't use local sockets, so here's a fix. This is gro=
>ss
>+;;; and should obviously be included in Franz' clx and portable clx, but I
>+;;; believe that enough users will find that their X servers don't listen =
>for
>+;;; TCP connections that it is worthwhile to include this code here
>+;;; temporarily.
>
>Of course, it would be nice to not require the X server to run without
>"--nolisten tcp" but this patch breaks the whole CLX (not only for
>mcclim) on my system.

  No, it'd be really nice if psuedo security weenies wouldn't break
the standard X configuration!! (Can you tell I have an opinion on this
subject?)

>Because of these problems I propose to remove the patch from the
>mcclim cvs repository again. It would be nice to not require an X
>server that listens for TCP connections but this code is too buggy and
>mcclim/Backends/CLX/port.lisp is just not the right place for such an
>hack.
>
>What do you think?

  Remove it!!!

  Mike McDonald
  mikemac at mikemac.com