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From: Michael Elbel <me@tick.muc.ditec.de>
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To: asami@cs.berkeley.edu (Satoshi Asami)
Date: Fri, 2 Aug 1996 08:31:50 +0200 (MET DST)
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>  *      If the Motif license allows it, could you just statically link the
>  * Motif library?
> 
> It's possible, but do people really want this?  It's gonna be bloated,
> and xemacs is already big enough at it is (the binary is almost 3MB
> with shared everything!)....
> 
> I'll let the maintainer make the call.  Michael, if you need more
> context, let me know.

Personally, I don't think it's worth it. Most of the GUI stuff is handled
just nicely by the Lucid libraries. There are very few things where
Athena widgets are used. The boat/usability ratio for linking Motif in
statically is just too high IMNSHO. The people who really want Motif
for the looks, not the functionality, will have a license and can
always recompile the beast.

Michael