On Sat, 3 Jun 2000, Rick Scott wrote:
> By adding it to Primitive, we get it on all of these. This will
> involve changes to Primitive:class_initialize, Primitive:set_values,
> and the Enter/Leave action routines (which reside in TravAct.c), and
> some additions to the Primitive class structure. I can easily do this
> with LessTif, but how would I go about getting it into OpenMotif?? I
> could code a patch for OpenMotif myself, but this would mean reading
> the Motif source. Could I then continue coding for LessTif??
If you add it to the Primitive struvture you will also probably break
source- and binary compatibility with previous versions. Bad idea.
> Now let's assume I get the changes into both LessTif and OpenMotif
> somehow. Now what do I do about running my code on Solaris, and HPUX??
>
> OpenMotif has been great for getting Motif on my free/open-source
> platforms, but how we advance it is less than clear now.
>
> Like Danny said, help!
Release your code under the X Consortium license. This will allow anyone
to include it both in OpenMotif and LessTif, as you already did with the
code of Editres in LessTif.
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