On Wed, Oct 24, 2018 at 5:44 PM Alan Coopersmith < [email protected]> wrote:
> On 10/24/18 06:14 AM, Udo Grabowski (IMK) wrote: > > On 24/10/2018 14:39, Aurélien Larcher wrote: > > Motif is still needed for some applications, but isn't there OpenMotif ? > > Yes - but it's not binary compatible with the old Solaris Motif 1.2 or 2.1 > so you'll need to recompile the apps to use it. > > > libXaw is still needed, but again, freedesktop.org has a free > alternative. > > Right - these are the X11R4 & X11R5 versions for backwards binary > compatibility. > X.Org currently ships libXaw7 upstream, which is in a different OI package. > > > CDE is dead, and people that used it should be, too (I feel sick...). > > Hey! Just because we're old doesn't mean we're useless! > > > libowconfig....oh my god, OpenWindows, olwm ? > > That was a badly named Xsun configuration library - I have no idea why > anything would still be using it. We dropped it in Solaris 11.4 after > modifying fbconfig (SPARC graphics config utility) to stop using it: > > https://github.com/oracle/solaris-xorg/commit/ecb865891b0685db5d > > > SUNWxwinc/plt are just Meta-incorporation packages for Xwindows > > application groups; useful as such, they may be renamed and kept. > > They were a transition aid for old SVR4 packages that depended on > the SVR4 SUNWxwplt & SUNWxwinc, which bundled all the X libraries > and clients together before we split them into individual packages > to match upstream. > > If you want to publish them, the sources are in: > > https://github.com/oracle/solaris-xorg/tree/1c94357064e1b34d3bcec7c43b60ba45ba3114e1/pkg/manifests > > (We also dropped them in Solaris 11.4.) > Alan, thank you for providing all this background information and pointers to solaris-xorg. Would you recommend still providing binaries for Motif and the old Athena Widgets? Kind regards, Aurélien > > -alan- > > _______________________________________________ > oi-dev mailing list > [email protected] > https://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/oi-dev -- --- Praise the Caffeine embeddings
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