Hi Aaron, > Ideally I should be testing stuff from github and from the package provided by > Steve Leach, but I can't keep up -- and I am also nervous because although > Steve > supports fedora, one of the packaging tools he uses [snap -- if I've > understood > one of his messages correctly] gave me a lot of trouble last year when I first > installed Fedora 32 via a package that included snap, and I had to remove it > from my system.
Just to be clear, the GetPoplog RPM and Deb packages are just ordinary packages. There's no relationship to snap. > I don't know whether Waldek's and Steve's packages will deal with all the > prerequisites described here: > > https://www.cs.bham.ac.uk/research/projects/poplog/V16/required-packages.html GetPoplog does, since that's an intrinsic part of the packaging. We also have an Arch package, should anyone be interested. > Motif is specified as a requirement there, because ved menus and other things > don't work without motif, but not everyone will want to have it installed. > (E.g. Waldek, it seems!) We have just finished adapting the poplog command so that you can select Motif, Xt or console as an option when you start poplog. Here's the relevant section in the help. poplog --gui=(motif|xt) [OPTION]... poplog --no-gui [OPTION]... Poplog can be used with an X-windows graphical user interface (GUI) or simply inside a terminal (`--no-gui`). The GUI look-and-feel can either use the Motif toolkit (--gui=motif) or a much plainer X-toolkit style (`--gui=xt`). This completely changes the appearance of VED, the built-in editor, for example. To do this, we build all three 'editions' of Poplog and then, depending on the flags, pick the appropriate one at startup & assign the environment variables accordingly. We expect to release it formally by the end of the week. Steve
