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Ron,

> In a nutshell, what is the case for keeping XT alive?
>
> As for Mr Clark, I don't believe he has any obligation to keep a now
> unneeded artifact of the standardisation process alive, since the
> standard is complete. We will all benefit more greatly if he goes
> on to the next "great thing", rather than waste time on testing an
> already released standard.

I fully agree.
 
> It is up to us, the XT community, to articulate a case for keeping XT
> alive, and, assuming the case can be made, find a practical way
> accomplish this. We seem to currently be doing things in the wrong
> order -- first we need to make the case, not set up CVS repositories!

What do you mean concretely by "to make the case" ?

I have started defining more precisely the "trivial" tasks assuming that
they were quite "neutral" and generic and will be needed whatever
decision we take (as long as we want to go ahead).

In the meantime, we need to define what we want to achieve.

Is this what you mean ?

> Another necessary condition before we can proceed is to get Mr Clark's
> blessing, otherwise we will not be taken seriously.

It's his decision.
 
> Or perhaps its time to look at creating "XT mark II", architected and
> implemented in a way that reflects the lessons learned from XT's strengths
> and weaknesses?

It looks like you are way ahead (compared to me)...
I personally still have a long way to go to learn all the lessons from
XT !
Do you want to help us getting up to speed for XT mark II ?

Eric

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