Re: Policy regarding Motif apps?

[Rick Macdonald <rickm@vsl.com>]

John T. Larkin wrote:
> 
> > 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?
> 
> Since I don't have Motif, and don't plan to get it in the near future, I
> think its a great idea to have both versions, statically and dynamically
> linked, available.

What about LessTif?  http://www.hungry.com/products

Once LessTif is in place, distributing only the dynamically-linked executables
would certainly seem reasonable.

Until then, providing both would be better than nothing.

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...RickM...