From <geer@ATHENA.MIT.EDU> Sat Apr  2 21:29:26 1988
From: <geer@ATHENA.MIT.EDU>
Date: Thu, 24 Mar 88 15:38:08 EST
To: athena@ATHENA.MIT.EDU, x-conversion@ATHENA.MIT.EDU
Subject: x11 sources, etc.

To bring order and rationality to the issue of X11
sources, the following are now in effect:

attach x11
   This gets you the sources consistent with the
   release in the field.  In other words, if you build
   with these sources, you will get binaries consistent
   with the workstation software you have.

attach x11dev
   This gets you Athena's development X11 sources,
   plus some combination of official and unofficial
   patches.  This is *not* what is on the workstations,
   but the evolving pool from which workstation releases
   are, with suitable additional magic, taken when
   appropriate.  These sources are guaranteed to be 
   different than other Athena sources, and are 
   unstable.

attach vsStaffTools
attach rtStaffTools
   These will be phased out almost immediately.  See
   the following.  (What had been RVD based service
   becomes NFS service.)

attach StaffTools
   This gets you a set of bipartite trees, ``vaxbin''
   and ``rtbin'', ``vaxlib'' and ``rtlib'', etc., of
   recent additions to the software suite.  These will
   often include items of interest to the X community;
   for example the X Toolkit binaries.  A makefile
   template will be posted to the x-conversion mailing
   list; see also the README file in StaffTools.
   StaffTools is an intermediate between x11dev and x11.
   In general, project development should build against
   the current system libraries contained in the release.
   If the source for these libraries is a necessity,
   use the sources in ``x11'' unless recent changes are
   important, in which case build against the sources
   in ``StaffTools''.



--dan, et al.