On Mon, Apr 9, 2012 at 9:31 PM, Bruce Dubbs <[email protected]> wrote:
> I've been looking at lesstif and think it's more effort than it's worth
> to maintain.  The maintenance is very spotty.  It builds OK, but the
> install procedure is questionable.  I wouldn't think anyone would really
> want to use the Motif window manager.
>
> 0.95.2  2009-05-27  19,728 downloads
> 0.95.0  2006-06-10  54,515 downloads
> 0.94.4  2005-04-01  30,104 downloads
>
> xpdf has lesstif as a mandatory dependency.  There are better pdf
> viewers.  The last update was 08/16/11 and the book requires an update
> from 3.0.2 to 3.0.3.
>
> xpdf-3.00.tar.bz2 Oct 29  2005
> xpdf-3.01.tar.gz  Apr  6  2006
> xpdf-3.02.tar.gz  Jul 27  2007
> xpdf-3.03.tar.gz  Aug 16  2011
>
> Any problems with removing these?
>
>   -- Bruce

sounds great to me.  I prefer poppler.  and have not been using
lesstif for years.

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