Fedora Core to drop openmotif [LWN.net]

Fedora Core to drop openmotif

Posted Sep 3, 2006 11:49 UTC (Sun) by deniel (guest, #15492)
In reply to: Fedora Core to drop openmotif by k8to
Parent article: Fedora Core to drop openmotif

Obsolete on Linux maybe but on other proprietary Unix, it is often the only X widget library that is available in standard.
So when COTS providers think about portability, it is sometimes their only option.
Take a COTS available on HPUX, AIX or whatever, when they want to port it on Linux, why would they take GTK, QT and modify their code when their software already work with openmotif ?

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Fedora Core to drop openmotif

Posted Sep 7, 2006 9:39 UTC (Thu) by k8to (subscriber, #15413) [Link]

And this COTS software cannot link against openmotif statically? You are
aware of course that other Linux distributions _also_ do not include this
library, so they should have already been doing so if they wanted to be
portable.