On Thu, 02 May 2002 13:28:44 -0700, Robert Pearson wrote: >After numerous questions and telling people that I used >Redhat 7.2, I have just found out that older versions of >Lesstif (mine is from 1998) will not run in Redhat 7.2. > >If this is true, and if any of you have vested interests in keeping >Lesstif a >viable set of libraries, it would be helpful not to cloak >such information as it only makes people want to give up the ship when >they find >out.
LessTif in the recent versions is known to run on many many platforms. Probably you can have problems if upgrading your linux box, but that's the fault of linux (famous examples include Motif ...) or that distributions. Try to get a recent version then or even try to build LessTif from sources. We don't support any binary packages except those we provide and only for the specified systems. Of course, we're interested in feedback and if we can we'll try to help! And BTW, LessTif is still in heavy development. Any version older than half a year is completly outdated anyway. >If this is not true, please remember that, likewise, it's good to give >a good "state of the union" address now and then. Where does Lesstif >really >fit in today? I have found finding out about Lesstif a bit-too-cryptic >experience, and I have ten years Windows software developing (if not >always >hard coding) experience. Where does it fit today? Discussing the market share of Motif is not my intention, it's certainly not "dead", but may have seen the best time of its life. LessTif is still important, as a matter of fact nothing has changed. Open Motif is not "free software" - I don't care about LPGL or GPL - I am just not allowed to use OpenMotif on my system. Therefore it's not "free software". There's a statement on this on http://www.lesstif.org/future.html --- Alexander Mai [EMAIL PROTECTED] _______________________________________________ Lesstif mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://terror.hungry.com/mailman/listinfo/lesstif
