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From: rws@EXPO.LCS.MIT.EDU (Bob Scheifler)
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Subject: Re: mit/lib/Xaw/Imakefile and -DSHAPE: Command and Mailbox widgets
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Date: 14 Jun 90 22:54:23 GMT
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[Your From: address is completely useless: gauss.llnl.gov@lll-winken.llnl.gov]

    Fundamentally, what I'm asking is: why bother with SHAPE ifdef's at all?

There isn't really a good reason any more.  When we were first developing the
SHAPE extension and experimenting with it, we weren't positive it would make it
as an X Consortium standard (either in time for R4 or at all), so we put most
of the code in with #ifdefs to make it easier to remove.  The #ifdefs should
go away in the next release.