Re: gEDA-user: lesstif vs gtk (no flame please)

[David Griffith <dgriffi@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Fri, 3 Mar 2006, Dan McMahill wrote:

> can't find the thread I meant to reply on....
>
> Someone had commented that lesstif is old and out of date and I think
> questioned why use it at all.
>
> One of the big values of all the work DJ has put into creating the HID
> version of PCB with both lesstif and GTK gui's is that having 2 GUI's
> keeps you honest about the break between core code and GUI code.
> There's really nothing like 2 guis to force you to do that.  Some of the
> benefits from that break is

If PCB and friends work with lesstif, you should be able to compile
without adding anything else, since Motif is typically already there.
Also, it seems that lesstif is deprecated anyhow since real Motif went
OSS.

I agree.  Trying to install multiple packages on something like Solaris
(or Irix) without pkgsrc is an exercise in madness.  I'm SOOOOO glad
pkgsrc is now available for other systems.


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David Griffith
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