Date: Mon, 28 Mar 2016 08:00:13 -0700 From: Cy Schubert <Cy.Schubert@komquats.com> To: Baptiste Daroussin <bapt@FreeBSD.org> Cc: Cy Schubert <cy@FreeBSD.org>, ports-committers@freebsd.org, svn-ports-all@freebsd.org, svn-ports-head@freebsd.org Subject: Re: svn commit: r412033 - in head/x11-toolkits: . Xmt Xmt/files Message-ID: <201603281500.u2SF0DJf058697@slippy.cwsent.com> In-Reply-To: Message from Baptiste Daroussin <bapt@FreeBSD.org> of "Mon, 28 Mar 2016 11:25:56 %2B0200." <20160328092555.GE36953@ivaldir.etoilebsd.net>
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In message <20160328092555.GE36953@ivaldir.etoilebsd.net>, Baptiste Daroussin w rites: > On Mon, Mar 28, 2016 at 06:10:10AM +0000, Cy Schubert wrote: > > Author: cy > > Date: Mon Mar 28 06:10:10 2016 > > New Revision: 412033 > > URL: https://svnweb.freebsd.org/changeset/ports/412033 > >=20 > > Log: > > Welcome the new x11-tookits/Xmt port. > > =20 > > Xmt is a Motif Tools library, introduced in the book Motif Tools > > (ISBN 1-56592-044-9). The Xmt Motif Tools library provides developers > > of user interfaces tools that make Motif easier to use. Xmt consists > > of the core library of additional widgets, utility programs, docs, > > tutorials, and example code. > > Wow last release in 2001 a website where more than half of the links are de= > ad > links (in particular the documentation). This project is dead for more than= > 15 > years. Is there reallly any value added by having this port in? Maybe you p= > lan > to import some higher level ports using it? > > I don't really care, just it feels strange to add something abandonned for = > that > long in the ports tree. It's still in use by some. I happen to have some apps that use it (using the original library that came with the CD that accompanied the book -- version 1.0.0). The latest book became Volume 6C of the Oreilly X11 library, considering this is also an extension to Motif toolkit. -- Cheers, Cy Schubert <Cy.Schubert@komquats.com> or <Cy.Schubert@cschubert.com> FreeBSD UNIX: <cy@FreeBSD.org> Web: http://www.FreeBSD.org The need of the many outweighs the greed of the few.
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