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My ConcernMy ConcernPosted Aug 31, 2006 17:18 UTC (Thu) by bronson (subscriber, #4806)In reply to: My Concern by emkey Parent article: Fedora Core to drop openmotif
How does dropping a few rarely-used and mostly obsolete applications from a single Linux distro aid in Microsoft's ascendency??
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My Concern Posted Aug 31, 2006 18:29 UTC (Thu) by flewellyn (subscriber, #5047) [Link] I'd hardly call CMUCL obsolete. It's a very powerful and actively developed Common Lispimplementation.
CMU's Common LISP (CMUCL) Posted Aug 31, 2006 23:04 UTC (Thu) by dwheeler (guest, #1216) [Link] But there are many other Common LISP implementations, so in most cases you don't lose basic functionality. And I suspect this is an overzealous dependency anyway; I expect that much of it works without Motif at all, never mind this particular implementation.
My Concern Posted Sep 1, 2006 0:57 UTC (Fri) by donio (subscriber, #94) [Link] Also, CMUCL's Motif interface and the Motif based inspector are optional, I don't think that many people use them nowadays. It should be simple to modify the package to build without these components.
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