On 1/9/24 14:08, Matthew R. Trower wrote:
Motif itself (while not on this list) is a curious situation. It was open
sourced along with CDE, so we could actually update to a source release. From
what I recall however, there was at a breaking change in the open source
codebase which prevents backwards/forwards compatibility between the two. This
really sucked when I had a mix of applications depending on both the closed and
open releases. However...
Yes, I believe the open source OpenMotif 2.3 is not binary compatible with the
Solaris closed source Motif 2.1. That shouldn't be a problem for the packages
in OI, if OI rebuilt all the packages to use OpenMotif, just for running
programs built against the Solaris libraries.
Am I correct in observing, that the only remaining packages depending on our
Motif will be developer/opensolaris/X and x11/keyboard/accessx?
developer/opensolaris/X was the set of package dependencies needed to build the
OpenSolaris X consolidation, and doesn't make sense for OI to maintain now that
all the X packages are folded into oi-userland instead. There is no actual
software built in developer/opensolaris/X - it's solely a set of package
dependencies. x11/keyboard/accessx is mainly interesting for running CDE or
other setups without the accessibility controls provided in the desktop
environment - it's not necessary for GNOME which has accessibility controls
in it's settings apps, and I suspect is not needed for MATE either.
--
-Alan Coopersmith- alan.coopersm...@oracle.com
Oracle Solaris Engineering - https://blogs.oracle.com/solaris
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