Re: Texteroids (Minor Retraction)

[Alan Hourihane <alanh at fairlite dot demon dot co dot uk>]

On Sun, Jun 02, 2002 at 07:03:54AM -0700, Nicholas Wourms wrote:
> --- Alan Hourihane <alanh@fairlite.demon.co.uk> wrote:
> > Huh ?
> > 
> > libdps in the XFree86 CVS does not depend on "strict motif" at all,
> > in fact it has no dependencies on motif, lesstif or anything 'tif.
> > It all builds straight from the CVS - all open source.
> Yes you are right for the core library, but some additional widgets
> included in addon library require motif:
> 
> The source code for libdpstkXm is included with XFree86; however, as it
> depends on Motif, this library is not built by default.
> 
> Sorry for the confusion.
  
Right. And that's why I'm saying it doesn't depend on them. If you
have them available fine.

> > There is no DPS extension in XFree86 CVS either. Like I said the 4.1.0
> > RELNOTES are wrong. Although, yes, http://dps.sourceforge.net provides
> > an initial extension for XFree86. But that isn't included in our
> > baseline tree.
> So the release notes are wrong, I wrote this letter before I received your
> clarification on that...
>  
> > What are you ranting about the Open Group for here ???
> > 
> > You seem to have really gone off at a tangent.
> 
> Why am I ranting?  Because it is highly annoying that they have forbidden
> using "OpenMotif" on Cygwin/XFree86 when they know full well that
> Cygwin/XFree86 is NOT Microsoft Windows, but a platform of its own that
> happens to run on top of MS Windows.  In any event, if you followed the
> list, some other porting projects have been hindered by the lack of
> OpenMotif or full Lesstif->Motif compatibility.  As I said you can
> disagree, but it is relevant to the project.  I mean pressure needs to be
> put on the so-called "Open Group" to change that policy.

Huh again. Where did I say I was disagreeing with you. And why don't 
you think I follow this list ? I've been on this list for quite some
time.

If you have some bitching to do about "The Open Group" that bitch at
them. We already know the problems we've got here, or help improve
LessTif which is certainly more productive.

Alan.