chet@cwjcc.cwru.edu (Chet Ramey) (03/14/89)
>Let's assume that I have a Sun 3/60 running SunOS 4.1 with X11/NeWS, a >DecStation 3100 running DecWindows, and a HP machine (whatever model) >running X11. All windowing systems are "based on" X11 and are claimed to >be "compatible" in every way with X. >Will a toolkit used on one of these machines "port" to another fairly >painlessly? It all depends on how you define "port". I assume you mean that you want to have the xview toolkit available on more than one machine, so that clients that use what the toolkit offers can be built for different architectures. If a toolkit uses the stuff in Xlib and (if needed) Xt, I see no reason why this would not be possible. After all, Xt, the HP widget set (Xw), the Athena widgets (Xaw), and the Andrew toolkit (atk) are all coexisting more or less peacefully here (and a lot of other places, I'm sure). >You see what I'm driving at. If View2 is simply an X toolkit running in >an X environment, can I use it on a DecStation? Or an HP? If a "port" >isn't possible (whatever that means in an X environment), then what >happens if the DecStation uses the Sun as an X server? What happens then? I would think that it would be painless to use view2 (or xview, or whatever) on any machine (In either sense of "use": development and running clients). We have clients running on Vaxen using Suns as display servers, and vice versa. Clients even exist (the shared-memory version of xtrek, for example) that are restricted to executing on a particular architecture, but can use any workstation with an X server as a display engine. I assume that the same will be possible with clients built using xview, once it makes its appearance on the X11R4 tape. Even if it turns out to be restricted to Suns (which I seriously doubt), you can do development on Suns and run those clients from anywhere. Chet Ramey chet@{cwjcc,pirate}.CWRU.EDU Network Services Group Case Western Reserve University Weird, man. Too weird.
jipping@cs.hope.edu (Mike Jipping) (04/26/89)
About a month ago, I asked a question about View2 (XView?) as a toolkit
under X. I got lots of GREAT responses. Thanks to all. Because some of
my ACKS bounced, I'm using this medium.
Because most of the info I garnered came out over Sun-Spots as well, I'll
not summarize here.
All will be made known soon enough I suspect...
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