Policy regarding Motif apps?
There are two really fine free Motif applications for Linux that I would
like to see packages for, and I might make them myself: GIMP and
ddd. GIMP is a very nice painting/processing program that is aimed
at the Photoshop niche, with plug-ins and the whole thing. DDD is a
fabulous graphical front-end to gdb that leaves everything else in the
dirt.
I'm wondering what the Debian developers' and users' views are about Motif
apps. Should they be available as Debian packages at all? If so, should
the binary packages be statically linked, which is gross, or dynamically
linked, requiring that you have Motif libraries installed? Maybe both
should be available? I personally have Motif installed, and it irks me to
have to use a statically-linked Netscrape, so I wouldn't be too thrilled
about a bunch of other static Motif apps.
Bill Gribble
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