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Subject: Re: OS X edm/medm openmotif woes
From: Pete Jemian <[email protected]>
To: <[email protected]>
Date: Tue, 15 Nov 2016 19:05:34 -0600


On 11/15/2016 6:01 PM, J. Lewis Muir wrote:
Long term, Motif needs to be

... retired.

Need to choose newer tools that do not require Motif.
It is reaching end of life.

For example, no libraries supporting Motif are available for linuxmint 18, either in standard distribution or 3rd party. The only choice is to build from source. Or to downgrade to linuxmint 17.3 or earlier. Expect this pattern to occur in other OS. Indirectly, you are describing that situation in MacOSX.

Pete

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