liam@cs.qmc.ac.uk (William Roberts) (02/24/88)
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I got an express airmail copy that was described as "hot off
the release disks" and it arrived on the 22nd of January.
It is therefore released..... isn't it? :-)
All the comments I have heard from Sun about SunView, SunCORE
and SunCGI essentially suggested that getting the X11/NeWS
merged product was the top priority. From what I remember of a
meeting with Amy Christen at the end of last year:
* SunView will be on top of the merged product
* the pixrect stuff will fade away, but the higher level
suntools/sunwindows stuff will remain
* Sun have no plans to support SunCGI or SunCORE under NeWS
* Maybe some of the X fans will provide PHIGS+ for X, in which
case Sun might use that for those that want it.
* Sun view NeWS partly as an opportunity to sell fancy graphics
hardware
For what it's worth, I am committed to giving a joint paper at
the Sun User Group European Conference about a team effort to
provide SunView facilities in PostScript, intended to offer
minimum violence to existing SunView source code. The test
vehicle is the iconedit program, and so far all the violence
seems to be to do with the rasterop stuff (surprise surprise).
For UK and European sites, I run a "NeWS Information Server"
which has some assorted bits and pieces (more welcomed!)
including the SunView stuff when it's done, and a 3D viewing
model written entirely in PostScript. Interested people should
mail
news-server@uk.ac.qmc.cs
with a single line message saying "help" in lowercase letters.
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