Re: Packaging questions regarding plan
> > I don't think that support for different Moitfs are needed.
> > All known software despite of being compiled with Motif 2.0 does not
> > use features not present in Motif 1.2
> > The reason for this is that "big unices" does not have Motif 2.0 actively
> > shiped from the vendors yet and using Motif 2.0 features would make your
> > application imposible to port. *When* situation changes, I don't think
> > that anyone using Motif for i386 Linux would have Motif 1.2
> >
> > (And franckly speaking, 2.0 also. By that time all vendors will be
> > shipping 2.1 which would _hopefully_ be compiled against glibc for Linux)
> >
> > Alex Y.
> >
>
> But things linked against Motif 2.0 cannot link against and run with a
> Motif 1.2 library. Take for example nedit-dmotif, currently in
Not true.
> contrib. Try to run it on Lesstif and it won't work, because it will
> not find a Motif 2.0 library. Lesstif provides a Motif 1.2 lib.
Yeah, but Lesstif was not meant to be *binary* compatible with real
Motif, only *source code* compatible!
Alex Y.
> When I compiled nedit, I used a Motif 2.0 library. I agree with
> Chris that we should have both a motif12 and a motif20 virtual package.
>
> -Erik
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