Re: [cobalt-developers] Fwd: CERT Advisory CA-2002-20 Multiple Vulnerabilities in CDE ToolTalk

["William L. Thomson Jr." <wlt@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Thu, 2002-07-11 at 10:39, Jan Wildeboer wrote:
> William L. Thomson Jr. wrote:
> 
> > 1.3.26 was released on June 8, 2002, and the new version of Apache for
> > my XTR was made by Cobalt on  Jun 20, 2002. So why 1.3.26 could not be
> > used is beyond me, I would somewhat understand if there were
> > compatibility issues, but I am not aware of this being the case.
> 
> The cobalt GUI seems to dislike other apache versions. I guess it would 
> be too much work in a reasonable amount of time to check all possible 
> implications of using a newer apache version so the decision to release 
> a patch to the current apache is fine IMHO. Now they will have the time 
> (and should use it) to package newer apache versions.

Which once again brings up the issue of is the Cobalt GUI sticking to
standards? There was a discussion a little while back about allot of
standards based Unix/Linux browsers not rendering the GUI properly.