From owner-freebsd-current Tue May 16 21:22:21 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from ns.yogotech.com (ns.yogotech.com [206.127.123.66]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 092E737B54A for ; Tue, 16 May 2000 21:22:17 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from nate@yogotech.com) Received: from nomad.yogotech.com (nomad.yogotech.com [206.127.123.131]) by ns.yogotech.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id WAA03997; Tue, 16 May 2000 22:22:08 -0600 (MDT) (envelope-from nate@nomad.yogotech.com) Received: (from nate@localhost) by nomad.yogotech.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) id WAA22266; Tue, 16 May 2000 22:22:07 -0600 (MDT) (envelope-from nate) Date: Tue, 16 May 2000 22:22:07 -0600 (MDT) Message-Id: <200005170422.WAA22266@nomad.yogotech.com> From: Nate Williams MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: "Brandon D. Valentine" Cc: Nate Williams , Garance A Drosihn , Amancio Hasty , current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Motif is now Open Source 8) In-Reply-To: References: <200005161744.LAA15207@nomad.yogotech.com> X-Mailer: VM 6.34 under 19.16 "Lille" XEmacs Lucid Reply-To: nate@yogotech.com (Nate Williams) Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > >Unlike X (which rarely changes), I suspect the Motif stuff to change > >alot. > > I'm unclear on what gyrations you are expecting from a mature API > codified in an IEEE standard. As long as you're using the Motif > standard interface in your code you should have nothing to worry about. Ahh, but I'm not expecting the API to change, but I'm expecting the internals to change. For example, Sun changed Motif in between JDK1.1 and JDK1.2 because of bugs in it. Also, Motif doesn't compile under FreeBSD cleanly right now, and I expect it to change as it supports internationalization and such. Nate To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message