Hi. [Caveats first - not wishing to incite riots with this email, as I'm sure that I could; and not looking to boost advocacy for one flavor or another; just looking for answers to things of which I'm ignorant, and have been unable to find anything relevant to my questions. If there is an information resource that addresses my question(s), a pointer would be just great!]
I've spent several hours searching and browsing, lists and FAQS, and have not yet found any basic information or discussion on my question (in itself surprising to me), which is: how should one make the choice between use of lesstif and openmotif? My background is pretty straightforward. I am running linux; not doing any active development; I do, however, build all the apps on my box from source, rather than installing from distributions; I don't have a huge number of motif apps, but I do have a sufficient enough number that recompiling from one to the other is non-trivial; I started using lesstif years back because it was available and worked for most/all of what I had on my box; and lately I've run into a few, usually older, apps that either don't compile with lesstif, or they do compile, but then I get runtime errors that have something to do with the Xm lib (as opposed to other resources on my system). With that, I superficially conclude that MAYBE I'd be better off with openMotif, only because I have a superficial belief that it is closer in fidelity/fullness to Motif specs than maybe lesstif happens to be. I don't build software for or distribute to others, so I don't believe I have any licensing issues. With that as background - I'd greatly appreciate if someone could give me an assessment, from a position of knowledge that I don't have, as to what I might gain (or lose) from installing and moving over to openMotif (which I presume will have the effect that I will need to recompile all motif apps that I have previously linked with lesstif libs). Lastly - if there is a simple, straightforward way to set things up so that I can do one of the following: a. Have both libs/headers installed, and then build first with lesstif, and if I discover a problem, then build with openMotif, OR b. Have both libs/headers installed, but with lesstif only to run apps that I've previously built with it, and have all new builds be done with openMotif I'd appreciate any advice/info in this direction. thx! jbh _______________________________________________ Lesstif mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://terror.hungry.com/mailman/listinfo/lesstif
