Date: Tue, 9 Jun 1998 11:37:36 -0600 (MDT) From: Atipa <freebsd@atipa.com> To: Tim Pushor <timp@orion.ab.ca> Cc: John Birrell <jb@cimlogic.com.au>, Tom Brown <Tom@mercia.com>, freeBSD-Mozilla@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: XIG Motif (was Re: Dead mailing list!) Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.96.980609112522.4078B-100000@altrox.atipa.com> In-Reply-To: <357D28A9.C3435D07@orion.ab.ca>
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We are authorized resellers for XIG, and I have noticed that they are moving away from their OSF ports and focusing on their X-Servers, which make them more money. I also think that their user base is becoming more and more linuxy. They had a strong NetBSD/FreeNSD/BSDI base at their inception, but now they are strongly Linux oriented. I also know that all their examples do not even build out of the box. I have to hack all the Makefiles for a release that is supposed to be ported to FreeBSD. Their periodic table of widgets didn't even build on their 2.2 release last I checked. I did not spend much time on it though; I am sure with enough effort it would, but why should we have to kludge an OS-specific release? I do not speak for XIG or Atipa in any way; I am only relaying what I have noticed recently. I do not know if they have any plans to change these things. How stable and portable is Qt? Might this be a better solution? Is the JDK set on using Motif? Kevin <aside - I think Motif is an beast, personally. I have been doing a lot of my UI's in Tk, which looks just as nice and requires 90% less coding, and no recompiles, but that is irrelevant to this discussion... :) > On Tue, 9 Jun 1998, Tim Pushor wrote: > John Birrell wrote: > > > Tom Brown wrote: > > > Just as soon as I find out where I can get a copy of Motif that doesn't cost > > > $1200 or get the correct lib's. > > > > US$149 from www.xig.com > > Hmmm I purchased this Motif 2.0 from XIG some time ago when FreeBSD release level > was at 2.1.7. As soon as I upgraded to 2.2 (and the corresponding XFree86 > release) it broke Motif. Things would still build but would very often dump core. > XIG's solution was to use the XFree release from 2.1.7 and if I needed the newer > video drivers from the newer releases to just use the newer releases server, and > the old releases libs. I had Motif running for about 30 days before it did not > get installed again on any of my machines.. > > They aren't even answering my email anymore about a newer version of Motif. > > Has anyone else had similar experiences? > > Tim > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-mozilla" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-mozilla" in the body of the message
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