Re: Motif vs. Lesstif (Summary)

2004-02-17 Thread Eli Marmor
After reading the mentioned article in Maariv, and making some phone calls, I want to correct one detail in what I wrote to Omer Zak (to avoid yet another flames, the word I will be replaced by the word Somebody and the word my will be replaced by the word Somebody's): Indeed, the Hetz project

Re: Motif vs. Lesstif (Summary)

2004-02-17 Thread Daniel Feiglin
Pardon a slightly dumb question but ... As far as I know (Open) Motif has been available at source level for quite some time. Next, I'd expect any kind of bidi conversion/extension to be the same whether for classified Chetz usage for a business application. Hebrew is Hebrew and bidi is bidi.

Re: Motif vs. Lesstif

2004-02-16 Thread Aviram Jenik
On Monday 16 February 2004 10:26, guy keren wrote: eli, the only reason why such a miss-understanding could have resulted, is because you decided to start talking about this project, and made a few statements that imply of your involvement. AFAIR it was Omer who started the thread, and then

Motif vs. Lesstif

2004-02-15 Thread Omer Zak
The weekend newspapers mentioned the serious security vulnerability due to Egyptian software developers fixing bugs in Motif, used in the software which drives the Hetz project. I want to ask - why didn't the Hetz developers use Lesstif instead, if they MUST use Motif? Another point, couldn't

Re: Motif vs. Lesstif

2004-02-15 Thread Eli Marmor
Omer Zak wrote: The weekend newspapers mentioned the serious security vulnerability due to Egyptian software developers fixing bugs in Motif, used in the software which drives the Hetz project. I want to ask - why didn't the Hetz developers use Lesstif instead, if they MUST use Motif?

Re: Motif vs. Lesstif

2004-02-15 Thread Omer Zak
On Sun, 15 Feb 2004, Eli Marmor wrote: Omer Zak wrote: [... snipped ...] I want to ask - why didn't the Hetz developers use Lesstif instead, if they MUST use Motif? Another point, couldn't they use English-only version of Motif (the Egyptians presumably are involved only in BiDi

Re: Motif vs. Lesstif

2004-02-15 Thread Eli Marmor
I believe that this thread was started because of a small misunderstanding: There are TWO BiDi/Hebrew Support implementations: IBM's, and mine (AKA El-Mar). IBM sub-contracted parts of the project to Israeli and Egyptian companies (Applicom in Israel). I've had no connection with that project

Re: Motif vs. Lesstif

2004-02-15 Thread guy keren
On Sun, 15 Feb 2004, Eli Marmor wrote: I believe that this thread was started because of a small misunderstanding: There are TWO BiDi/Hebrew Support implementations: IBM's, and mine (AKA El-Mar). IBM sub-contracted parts of the project to Israeli and Egyptian companies (Applicom in Israel).

Re: Motif vs. Lesstif

2004-02-15 Thread Eli Marmor
guy keren wrote: eli, the only reason why such a miss-understanding could have resulted, is because you decided to start talking about this project, and made a few statements that imply of your involvement. i don't realy see how reading about your clients and their clients and their