About fltk, it can help us move some cool packages into main

[gsstark@mit.edu (Gregory S. Stark)]

A brief poking arounding /var/lib/dpkg/available with grep indicates the
following packages use the xforms library. The maintainers might want to 
try building the binaries with the fltk library instead, which would allow 
some of these packages to move from contrib to main. I would be especially
psyched to see lyx and dfm in main, and i'm sort of curious to see the sql
programs.

I think the main trick to compiling these packages is to make an include file
called forms.h which contains simply:

#include <FL/forms.H>

I think the main divergence between fltk and forms has been because the fltk
author refused to follow the libforms decision to use X11 specific event data
structures in the library API. So if your program does funky things with
events you might have a problem. But if your program just uses standard
libforms widgets it might just work.


libforms dependent packages in the contrib section:

  xisp
  dfm
  xldlas
  lyx
  xmysqladmin
  xfmix

libforms dependant packages in non-free:

  xfmail
  epan
  xmikmod
  xsqlmenu
  xmysql

greg


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