On Fri, Jun 26, 2009 at 04:08:51PM -0400, Dean Anderson wrote:
> On Fri, 26 Jun 2009, Alan Coopersmith wrote:
>
> > Dean Anderson wrote:
> > > Now please have a Sun senior manager apologize for the false disparaging
> > > claims about Motif support, enhancement status and section 508
> > > compliance made by the Sun/Opensolaris.org staff.
> >
> > You seem to be confusing our statements about the Motif packages available
> > for Solaris/OpenSolaris with the state of the OpenMotif fork of Motif
> > available from other companies. While OpenMotif may continue to be
> > enhanced,
> > it's not available for nor included in Solaris or OpenSolaris, which is of
> > course, what we normally discuss on opensolaris.org mailing lists, and the
> > older Motif 2.1 in Solaris & OpenSolaris is not being enhanced any more.
>
> Danek Duvall <danek.duv...@sun.com> says differently:
>
> > nitesh wrote:
> > >Does motif library comes with open solaris .. or i need to install it
> > >seperately.. if it comes . how can i use it in my programs??
> > I don't think it is included.
>
> It is, actually -- SUNWmfrun. It was held back for a long time due to
> legal issues, but those were straigtened out.
Hi,
I'm sorry to jump in, but I can at least clear up something: the SUNWmfrun
is a Sun-provided package which contains the Sun Motif runtime libraries
from CDE:
% what /usr/lib/libMrm.so
/usr/lib/libMrm.so:
CDEVersion1.7_111
This has nothing to do with Open Motif. (beyond the fact that they're
related in design and possibly code)
While these runtime libraries are included in Solaris, they are no longer
actively maintained, and are mainly there for binary compatibility with older
software.
Cheers,
- jonathan
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