On Wed, Feb 09, 2005 at 09:21:21AM -0500, Stuart Brorson wrote: > > > > On Tue, Feb 08, 2005 at 05:11:41PM -0500, Stuart Brorson wrote: > > > BTW: I remain in favor of GTK as the "quasi-official" gEDA GUI > > > toolkit if only because it is already entrenched with gEDA/gaf, and > > > managing the hell of proliferating libraries is a very important > > > for usablilty. This is particularly important for newbies who can't > > > be expected to install and manage two different GUI libraries. (They > > > can barely handle one library already -- think about all the confusion > > > we would face if two libraries were used!!!!) > > > > The solution to library hell is to use packages for your distribution > > from the distributor or a third party. Debian users can "apt-get install > > pcb" and get a working installation guaranteed. > > That's fine for Debian, but what about SuSE, Red Hat, AIX, Solaris, > Slackware, HPuX, Tru64, Mandrake, BSD, and so on?
Use NetBSD's pkgsrc on those! Seriously. I think it works on all of those operating systems. The place, in my opinion, where you have more of a problem is when you're not the administrator for a machine. Say for example, you have a solaris workstation but it is administered by someone else. They may or may not have decided to deploy pkgsrc and if not, they may or may not be willing to make gtk2 and/or qt generally available to their users. With Xaw (I'm not really advocating staying with it), its a pretty simple task to compile pcb in your own account and install it for you to use. As far as I know, if you have X, you probably have Xaw. -Dan --
