ViewKit (it is a C++ component library for Motif written by Doug Young when
he was at SGI) is one large mess of Motif code. Given that it ran, I think
that "often" would be an understatement.

Mark

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Danny Backx" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "Martin Simmons" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Cc: "Mark Hatch" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; "LessTif Mailing List"
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Tuesday, February 10, 2004 2:08 PM
Subject: Re: [Lesstif] Thanks!!


> There are differences between versions of Motif too. So how
> on earth could you set such a goal.
>
> Maybe we should just publish that we're often binary compatible.
>
> Danny
>
> On Tue, 2004-02-03 at 16:00, Martin Simmons wrote:
> > >>>>> On Tue, 3 Feb 2004 07:55:52 -0500, "Mark Hatch" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
said:
> >
> >   Mark> Joseph and I had an offline discussion on the problems he
observed with OM
> >   Mark> and mxaudio. The final resolution was that he only had a binary
form of
> >   Mark> mxaudio and apparently that had been built with\Motif 1.2
(probably either
> >   Mark> lesstif originally or Motif 1.2 from Metrolink). And since Motif
2.1 is not
> >   Mark> upwards compatible with Motif 1.2 (lots of internal structures
have been
> >   Mark> moved around and changed), there was no way that mxaudio would
link with any
> >   Mark> version of OM 2.x (where x = 1 or 2).
> >
> >   Mark> Fortunately for him (and others), lesstif is apparently 100%
binary
> >   Mark> compatible. So he is all set now. (BTW: we've seen this similar
level of
> >   Mark> compatibility with our ViewKit C++ Motif framework. Hat's off to
your
> >   Mark> effort!)
> >
> > It would be nice if it was true, but unfortunately Lesstif is not even
100%
> > binary compatible with other versions of Lesstif :-(
> >
> > __Martin
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> Danny Backx - danny.backx-at-skynet.be

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