[ug-bosug] CDE development libraries ?

[Moinak Ghosh]

USM Bish wrote:
> Just a bit of inquisitiveness. Unless you use the CDE desktop,
> are  there many  independent apps  which depend  upon the  CDE
> devel libraries ?
>
> Yes,  motif is  a different  issue. Lots  of apps  depend upon
> this, and for  long (at least under GNU/linux)  there has been
> the ever dependable clone called "lesstif". But then, over the
> last few years,  even motif has been released  under the "Open
> Group  Public  Licence"  where  the Open  Motif  source  code/
> binaries can be distributed royalty  free, provided it is used
> on an Open  Source platform, defined in the  OSI's open source
> definition (first drafted  by Bruce Perens for  Debian in June
> 1997) - AND OpenSolaris meets the stipulations.
>
> There is no reason why  OpenMotif should be considered "no no"
> in case  anybody wants  to use  these libs  under OpenSolaris.
> Lots of  legacy apps immediately becomes  available. Just grab
> it from MotifZone ...
>
> http://www.openmotif.org/
>   

   I have used OpenMotif in BeleniX and modified it a little to make it
   more compatible with Solaris motif. This was required to get Java
   AWT/Swing to work on BeleniX.

Regards,
Moinak.

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