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Subject: | Re: Fedora Core 6 to drop OpenMotif |
From: | Kay-Uwe Kasemir <[email protected]> |
To: | tech talk <[email protected]> |
Date: | Thu, 31 Aug 2006 16:54:22 -0400 |
No, simply back to where we were? Linux distros come with X11, you get OpenMotif yourself.
Or is it good riddance to X & Motif, more X & GTK? Or moving towards something like Qt that's not limited to X?
On Thu, 2006-08-31 at 13:24 -0500, Andrew Johnson wrote:Since a signficant number of EPICS extensions (ALH, DM2K, EDM, MEDM,
Probe, StripTool) make use of Motif, I think it's worthwhile repeating
this news item from Linux Weekly News here:Fedora Core to drop openmotif [Distributions] Posted Aug 31, 2006 16:13 UTC (Thu) by corbet
It's official: Fedora Core 6 will not include the openmotif library, which has a non-free license. The library will be removed prior to the October 2 development freeze. As a result, a number of packages using openmotif (including cmucl, ddd, nedit, and xpdf) will break; they, too, will be removed if they cannot be shifted over to lesstif in the next month.
Full Story at http://lwn.net/Articles/197744/
This won't prevent OpenMotif from being installed on FC6 machines, but
it will involve extra work. FC6 will include LesTif, but that's not
100% compatible with the original, and I know we had problems with it
before OpenMotif came out.
This is why we should be thinking about Qt, Eclipse, etc...
Has Sun Microsystems switched to using GNOME (GTK)?
- Andrew