Re: xforms replacement
The Gecko wrote:
>
> What is a "Free" graphics/windowing/x library out there? I have a program
> that's written for xforms that I'd like to port to something that can go in
> main, not non-free. fltk won't work. I need the beable to plot graphs and
> fltk doesn't implement the xyplot function group of xforms.
>
> Come to think of it.. would a program requiring xforms go in non-free or
> contrib?
Well, you can add to fltk (-: It is a rather nice framwork. For apps
using XForms, if the app itself is free it can go to contrib, else it
goes to non-free. The rule here is if the lib, app, etc. it DFSG
compliant but requires a non-DFSG compliant piece it goes to contrib.
Obviously if it too is non-DFSG then it goes to non-free, no questions
asked.
At one time fltk was to be a XForms replacement. This changed. Darn
shame. Seems the Windows support helped make it less X complaint.
You can look at GTK see if it can help. I have a lib here called EZWGL
(have not messed w/ it much). It seems nice. Search on freshmeat.net
for news purveyor, it uses the toolkit. Or as I mentioned, you can add
to fltk. The author is very keen on people helping to make it a better
lib. Several pieces were recently added by a few mailing list readers.
We should see them in Debian soon.
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