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From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Number Nine - XFree86 - Motif
Date: 23 Dec 1995 13:19:48 GMT
Organization: Private BSD site, Dresden
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jkh@violet.berkeley.edu (Jordan K. Hubbard) writes:

> X Inside, Inc. is on the brink of shipping their Motif product for
> FreeBSD and has just finished the final testing - I expect to see it
> myself fairly shortly.

That's Good News.

The SWiM product as shipped by Lasermoon has a very lovelessly
scribbled installation script, and suffers from several ``bad style''
problems (assumes that /usr/X386 and /usr/X11R6 are identical,
clobbers some imake template files, the shared mwm has a hard-coded
reference to /usr/X11R6/lib/libXm.so.2.0.0, it's difficult to install
it apart from /usr/X386).

-- 
cheers, J"org

joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE
Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)