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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!feed1.news.erols.com!cpk-news-hub1.bbnplanet.com!news.bbnplanet.com!EU.net!Belgium.EU.net!news.kb.be!news From: Danny Backx <u27113@kb.be> Newsgroups: comp.linux.x,comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: LessTif 0.78 Date: Tue, 22 Apr 1997 08:22:08 +0200 Organization: Kredietbank, Havenlaan 2, 1210 Brussel, Belgium Lines: 103 Message-ID: <335C5910.3085@kb.be> NNTP-Posting-Host: kb.be Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.0 (X11; I; HP-UX A.09.04 9000/826) Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:39494 Lesstif 0.78 has just been released. Lesstif is a freely available Motif clone. It is going to be source level compatible with Motif 1.2. It is distributed under the terms of the GNU Library General Public License (LGPL). Lesstif is available from the following URL's http://www.lesstif.org ftp://ftp.lesstif.org/pub/hungry/lesstif/ WHAT'S CHANGED -------------- Release 0.78 is an interim release. What's changed: <li>New directory structure to allow for CDE and 2.0 widgets. <li>For testing purposes, the Interleaf ComboBox widget is added to the Xm-CDE directory. If someone cares to replace or enhance it, please do so. I'm no legal expert, but enforcing LGPL license on LessTif if part of it is covered by the license Interleaf has put in, might be contradictory. (Note that the Interleaf license is more liberal than LGPL.) <li>A version of ComboBox with "dt" changed into "xm" is also put into the Xm-2.0 directory for testing purposes. Similar comments apply : we may want to replace this sucker. <li>New version of configure.cmd (for OS/2) from Michael Holzapfel. <li>Layout details (remember the "Pixel Police" ?) are finally understood and are getting into place in ScrolledWindow. <li> Drag and Drop is somewhat working at this point. We don't do PREREGISTER (because nobody has documented it), so it gets emulated by the DYNAMIC protocol. Cross application dragging doesn't work yet. <li>Improvements to the menu system. Option menus look a bit better, popup menus have improved and grab balancing is close to being OK. MAILING LISTS ------------- There are several mailing lists devoted to Lesstif lesstif This is the list for bug reports, general discussions, announcements etc. lesstif-commits This is a read only list. Subscribe to it if you want to follow development closely. You will receive the log messages that accompany modifications to the source code. To subscribe to the mailing <list>, send mail to <list>-request@hungry.com, with the subject "subscribe". To unsubscribe, send mail to <list>-request@hungry.com, with the subject "unsubscribe". Where <list> is either "lesstif" or "lesstif-commits". SUPPORTED PLATFORMS ------------------- Lesstif is known to compile on the following platforms: OS Version CPU Compiler X Version ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Linux 2.0.25 Pentium GCC-2.7.2.1 X11R6.1 (XFree86-3.2) 486 GCC-2.7.1 X11R5 2.0.0 486 gcc-2.7.2 X11R6 (XFree86-312) 2.0.18 Alpha gcc-2.7.2 ?? (assume X11R6.1) MkLinux 2.0.21 PowerPC GCC 2.7.2 X11R6.1 Solaris 2.4 SPARC GCC-2.7.2.1 X11R5 2.5 SPARC GCC-2.7.2 X11R5 SunOS 4.1.4 SPARC GCC-2.7.2 X11R6.1 FreeBSD 2.1.5-RELEASE 386, 486 gcc-2.6.3 ?? 2.1 Intel GCC-2.6.3 X11R6 2.2-SNAP Intel GCC-2.6.3 X11R6 2.2-961006-SNAP Pentium GCC-2.7.2.1 X11R6.1 OpenBSD 2.0 i486 GCC-2.7.2.1 X11R6.1 2.0 m68k (Sun3) GCC-2.7.2.1 X11R6 NetBSD 1.2 m68k (Amiga 3000) GCC-2.7.2 X11R6.1 1.2 SPARC GCC-2.7.2 X11R6 OS/2 Warp Pentium GCC-2.7.2 (EMX) X11R6.1 (XFree86-3.2) Digital UNIX 4.0 Alpha GCC-2.7.2 X11R6 AIX 4.1.x ?? (assume RS6K) gcc-2.6.? X11R5 SUCCESS ------- The web site lists a number of applications that are known to work with Lesstif to some extent. They probably won't work flawlessly though, your mileage may vary. The LessTif Core Team -- Danny Backx, Kredietbank, Havenlaan 2, 1210 Brussel, Belgium u27113@kb.be Tel. +32(2)422.74.57 Fax. +32(2)422.81.77