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Date:      Tue, 12 Jan 1999 16:51:20 -0500 (EST)
From:      Alfred Perlstein <bright@hotjobs.com>
To:        Daniel Eischen <eischen@vigrid.com>
Cc:        chuckr@mat.net, green@unixhelp.org, freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: XiG Motif - FreeBSD ELF
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.4.05.9901121650020.84303-100000@bright.fx.genx.net>
In-Reply-To: <199901122133.QAA04922@pcnet1.pcnet.com>

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On Tue, 12 Jan 1999, Daniel Eischen wrote:

> > If you have the sources, the Imakefiles are WAY too b0rked to use :( But it
> > can be compiled pretty easily, as evident by my copy of ELF Motif 2.0.  But
> > I really think: if you want Motif so much, why not just help out the Lesstif
> > project with whatever needs to be done? Lesstif is a very usable Motif
> > replacement... and seems to be quite a bit less buggy than Motif itself!
> 
> Not to take anything away from the Lesstif folks, but the last time
> I tried it, it was very buggy.  Perhaps things have changed and it's
> worth another look, but one only has so much spare time to contribute
> to Free^h^h^h^hOSS projects.  I'd rather spend mine fiddling with
> FreeBSD bits.

lesstif has seen dramatic improvements in the last few months because of
Mozilla efforts.  Yes, it used to be horrid, this is not the case anymore.

> At any rate, this is getting away from -current issues.  I just wanted
> folks running ELF to express their interest in ELF Accelerated X and
> Motif versions to XiG.

Already done, with some positive feedback from Xig.

-Alfred

> 
> Dan Eischen
> eischen@vigrid.com
> 
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