From owner-freebsd-mozilla Tue Jun 9 11:41:19 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id LAA05152 for freebsd-mozilla-outgoing; Tue, 9 Jun 1998 11:41:19 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-mozilla@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from mail.atipa.com (altrox.atipa.com [208.128.22.34]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id LAA05015 for ; Tue, 9 Jun 1998 11:40:31 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from freebsd@atipa.com) Received: (qmail 4190 invoked by uid 1017); 9 Jun 1998 17:37:36 -0000 Date: Tue, 9 Jun 1998 11:37:36 -0600 (MDT) From: Atipa To: Tim Pushor cc: John Birrell , Tom Brown , freeBSD-Mozilla@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: XIG Motif (was Re: Dead mailing list!) In-Reply-To: <357D28A9.C3435D07@orion.ab.ca> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-mozilla@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG We are authorized resellers for XIG, and I have noticed that they are moving away from their OSF ports and focusing on their X-Servers, which make them more money. I also think that their user base is becoming more and more linuxy. They had a strong NetBSD/FreeNSD/BSDI base at their inception, but now they are strongly Linux oriented. I also know that all their examples do not even build out of the box. I have to hack all the Makefiles for a release that is supposed to be ported to FreeBSD. Their periodic table of widgets didn't even build on their 2.2 release last I checked. I did not spend much time on it though; I am sure with enough effort it would, but why should we have to kludge an OS-specific release? I do not speak for XIG or Atipa in any way; I am only relaying what I have noticed recently. I do not know if they have any plans to change these things. How stable and portable is Qt? Might this be a better solution? Is the JDK set on using Motif? Kevin