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Subject: Re: Fedora Core 6 to drop OpenMotif
From: "Ernest L. Williams Jr." <[email protected]>
To: Andrew Johnson <[email protected]>
Cc: EPICS tech-talk <[email protected]>
Date: Thu, 31 Aug 2006 15:56:30 -0400
On Thu, 2006-08-31 at 13:24 -0500, Andrew Johnson wrote:
> Since a signficant number of EPICS extensions (ALH, DM2K, EDM, MEDM, 
> Probe, StripTool) make use of Motif, I think it's worthwhile repeating 
> this news item from Linux Weekly News here:
> 
> > Fedora Core to drop openmotif [Distributions] Posted Aug 31, 2006
> > 16:13 UTC (Thu) by corbet
> > 
> > It's official: Fedora Core 6 will not include the openmotif library,
> > which has a non-free license. The library will be removed prior to
> > the October 2 development freeze. As a result, a number of packages
> > using openmotif (including cmucl, ddd, nedit, and xpdf) will break;
> > they, too, will be removed if they cannot be shifted over to lesstif
> > in the next month.
> 
> Full Story at http://lwn.net/Articles/197744/
> 
> 
> This won't prevent OpenMotif from being installed on FC6 machines, but 
> it will involve extra work.  FC6 will include LesTif, but that's not 
> 100% compatible with the original, and I know we had problems with it 
> before OpenMotif came out.

This is why we should be thinking about Qt, Eclipse, etc...

Has Sun Microsystems switched to using GNOME (GTK)?




> 
> - Andrew


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Re: Fedora Core 6 to drop OpenMotif Kay-Uwe Kasemir
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