jea@prodigal.psych.rochester.edu (Joanne Albano) (05/31/91)
Dale recently posted that Motif will be available on the AmigaDos side, I wonder if Motif will be packaged on the 3000 uxh/d/whatever machines along with X11R4. jea@cvs.rochester.edu
rhealey@kas.helios.mn.org (Rob Healey) (06/05/91)
In article <14290@ur-cc.UUCP> jea@prodigal.psych.rochester.edu (Joanne Albano) writes: >Dale recently posted that Motif will be available on the >AmigaDos side, I wonder if Motif will be packaged on the >3000 uxh/d/whatever machines along with X11R4. >jea@cvs.rochester.edu Since C= is UI and OL, I doubt Motif will be available soon from them... But, I could be wrong, who knows? Maybe they'll make it an option or something? -Rob
scl@unislc.uucp (Sean Landis) (06/08/91)
rhealey@kas.helios.mn.org (Rob Healey) writes: >In article <14290@ur-cc.UUCP> jea@prodigal.psych.rochester.edu (Joanne Albano) writes: >>Dale recently posted that Motif will be available on the >>AmigaDos side, I wonder if Motif will be packaged on the >>3000 uxh/d/whatever machines along with X11R4. >>jea@cvs.rochester.edu > Since C= is UI and OL, I doubt Motif will be available soon from > them... But, I could be wrong, who knows? Maybe they'll make it > an option or something? > -Rob There are a variety of UI members (us for one) who have adopted motif. I for one can't stand what I've seen of open look. I'm contemplating the purchase of a 3000UX* and I think one of the first things I'm going to do is port a different interface. Sean -- Sean C. Landis | {hpda, sun, uplherc}!unislc!scl Unisys Open Systems Group | unislc!scl@cs.utah.edu 320 North 2200 West B2D01 | (801) 594-3988 Salt Lake City, Utah 84116 | (801) 594-3827 Fax
david@twg.com (David S. Herron) (06/11/91)
In article <114@kas.helios.mn.org> rhealey@kas.helios.mn.org (Rob Healey) writes: >In article <14290@ur-cc.UUCP> jea@prodigal.psych.rochester.edu (Joanne Albano) writes: > Since C= is UI and OL, I doubt Motif will be available soon from > them... But, I could be wrong, who knows? Maybe they'll make it > an option or something? > > -Rob That seems likely, --HOWEVER-- I recently saw an --->AT&T<--- ad for their Motif package which they are selling for '386/'486 and 3B2's... My impression is that bringing up Motif is simply a matter of compiling it. At least that's how hard it was to bring up on our Sun's here. Seeing as how X11 does a REALLY GOOD job of hiding system dependencies it should do a good job of hiding System V <--> SunOS dependencies. David -- <- David Herron, an MMDF & WIN/MHS guy, <david@twg.com> <- <- <- "MS-DOS? Where we're going we don't need MS-DOS." --Back To The Future
s8922967@ipc01.mqcs.mq.oz.au (Murray John GILBERT) (06/11/91)
In article <9044@gollum.twg.com> david@twg.com (David S. Herron) writes: >My impression is that bringing up Motif is simply a matter of >compiling it. At least that's how hard it was to bring up >on our Sun's here. Seeing as how X11 does a REALLY GOOD job >of hiding system dependencies it should do a good job of >hiding System V <--> SunOS dependencies. > It shouldn't be too hard too compile it on either of those systems. I heard somewhere that Suns workstations are supposed to be using System V in the near future anyway and that SunOS has sorta been becoming more and more "V-like" in recent versions anyway, so I reckon that there probably should not be any real bother compiling Motif on SVR4 for the Ami. (mind you I have never used SVR4 nor seen the Motif code - correct any misconceptions I have shown here) - Murray. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Murray Gilbert s8922967@ipc01.mqcs.mq.oz.au -------------------------------------------------------------------------------
jea@prodigal.psych.rochester.edu (Joanne Albano) (06/12/91)
I started the discussion on whether Motif would be available on the AMIGA and received a circular from GFXbase today stating that it should be available some time this summer. Joanne
rhealey@kas.helios.mn.org (Rob Healey) (06/13/91)
In article <14434@ur-cc.UUCP> jea@prodigal.psych.rochester.edu (Joanne Albano) writes: > I started the discussion on whether Motif would be available > on the AMIGA and received a circular from GFXbase today > stating that it should be available some time this summer. > Joanne But that Motif is for the AmigaDOS version of GFXbase's X11R4 implementation if I remember correctly. Doesn't fly for Amiga UNIX though, different compilers, different linkers. For now, the objects and librarys on AmigaDOS and Amiga UNIX can't be mixed and matched. -Rob
giger@ganesha.uucp ( private) (06/16/91)
In article <9044@gollum.twg.com> david@twg.com (David S. Herron) writes: >My impression is that bringing up Motif is simply a matter of >compiling it. At least that's how hard it was to bring up >on our Sun's here. Seeing as how X11 does a REALLY GOOD job >of hiding system dependencies it should do a good job of >hiding System V <--> SunOS dependencies. A german company, supported directly from our office, has ported Motif (1.1). It was actually shown on Amiga UNIX at the Systec and Orgatec shows '90, and on CeBIT '91. This does not indicate that Commodore plans to bundle/sell this or any other ports of Motif which I could announce here. What I would *like* to tell you, though, is: Given that Amiga UNIX 1.1 comes with X11R3, it has not been all that easy. In fact, this company also ported X11R4 libraries (not the server) because that is what Motif 1.1 needs. Apart from this extra work, a few bugs had to be found & fixed. One of them being that (at least in their version of) the Motif 1.1 source treats short's as 32-bits, which may be the case on OSF's reference machines, but is not on Amiga UNIX and many others. Quite a nasty one. It hasn't been their top priority project but judging from their experience I would say it equivalents to some months of man-spare- hours for you. > David ><- David Herron, an MMDF & WIN/MHS guy, <david@twg.com> Best regards, Thomas. -- Thomas Giger, Technical Support Manager, Commodore ESCO.