The road to dropping xdvik

[Jonathan Underwood]

On 28 January 2010 10:38, Richard Zidlicky <rz at linux-m68k.org> wrote:
> On Wed, Jan 27, 2010 at 11:08:25PM +0000, Jonathan Underwood wrote:
>> 2010/1/27 Orion Poplawski <orion at cora.nwra.com>:
>> > I suspect a lot of our users will be similarly annoyed.  This is one of
>> > those kinds of tools that "just works" and so people stick with it.
>>
>> Well.. perhaps. OTOH people seem to have happily migrated from xpdf to
>> evince over time (or at least that's my perception).
>
> not happy with evince, however okular works nicely. The speed difference to
> xdvi is substantial.
> How many people actually use the japanese support of xdvi if thats the main problem?

I suspect the japanese support is reasonably widely used. I wouldn't
say it's the main problem, just one of many problems associated with
the ageing bitrotting codebase. However, it seems we're not ready to
dump it at this time, so I'll continue maintaining the package for the
time being.