Hi, I for one would be glad to see openmotif in jessie, as I have a package planned, MetView, which has recently been relicensed as open source, but uses OpenMotif. In particular it uses a layout widget which doesn't work in lesstif. (MetView is in active development and increasingly uses Qt4, but still needs Motif).
So I strongly favour getting OpenMotif in Jessie, whether or not Lesstif is removed. best regards Alastair On 2012-12-23 18:56, Paul Gevers wrote: > Hi all, > > I don't know how many of you still care for the motif widgetset, but due > to the way I got involved in Debian, I have kept a small eye on it. > > Recently ICS [1] release a new version of openmotif, and this time they > stuck a LGPL license on it. I think this is good news, as it means that > we can get rid of a less optimal situation where we were using a less > than complete open source replacement, lesstif, to build programs > needing the motif widgetset. The last couple of years lesstif has > annoyed users quite a lot because the elementary copy/paste > functionality was not properly implemented [2]. > > Of course, we still have to release wheezy, but may I (also with my > lesstif co-maintainer hat on) already suggest to get rid of lesstif for > jessie. > > What do you think? > > Paul > PS: how nice that the latest update to the policy already removed the > lesstif/openmotif text. > > [1] http://motif.ics.com/motif > [2] http://lesstif.sourceforge.net/#help > -- Alastair McKinstry , <alast...@sceal.ie> , <mckins...@debian.org> http://blog.sceal.ie Anyone who believes exponential growth can go on forever in a finite world is either a madman or an economist - Kenneth Boulter, Economist. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/50d75b55.7060...@sceal.ie
