Re: autoconf version of itcl/tcl/tk subdirectories

[Steve Ellcey <sje at cup dot hp dot com>]

> Steve Ellcey wrote:
> 
> > What about iwidgets and blt?  They use the old autoconf too.  My
> > understanding is that they used to be used by insight but no longer are.
> > Can we remove the iwidgets and blt directories from the src tree?
> 
> Yes, you are right about those. BLT was never used by Insight (always 
> wanted to use it, though) and iwidgets became a subproject of itcl 
> sometime in the past.
> 
> So, yes, those projects could be removed. I don't know how overseers 
> feel about that since one might not be able to checkout/build a very old 
> version of insight. You might double-check with overseers@ before 
> removing them.
> 
> Keith

Yes, I will check with overseers before doing anything.  I just want to
make sure that the insight maintainers have no problem with removing
these before going to the overseers.  Any idea what "very old" is in
terms of what the version number / release date of the last insight was
that used iwidgets.  I looked in the top-level ChangeLog in the src tree
at sourceware.org and I can't find any reference to adding or removing
iwidgets from the top-level build.  When I look at the very first
version of Makefile.in at the top-level I see a build of itcl, but no
build of iwidgets.  Nor do I see any mention of iwidgets in the CVS log
for src/Makefile.in.  The CVS log goes back to 1999 and the ChangeLog
goes back to 1991.

Steve Ellcey
sje@cup.hp.com