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From: john@acorn.co.uk (John Bowler)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: Re: Unknown Toolkit procedures
Summary: Motif 1.1 doesn't work with X11R4?
Message-ID: <2639@acorn.co.uk>
Date: 6 Aug 90 16:55:50 GMT
References: <900802.10473256.012001@RMC.CP6> <1990Aug2.233602.8775@wrl.dec.com> <11624@paperboy.OSF.ORG>
Reply-To: john@acorn.UUCP (John Bowler)
Organization: Acorn Computers Ltd, Cambridge, UK
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In article <11624@paperboy.OSF.ORG> ron@osf.org (Ron Birnbaum) writes:
>In article <1990Aug2.233602.8775@wrl.dec.com> klee@wsl.dec.com writes:
>>                       I understand that the next version of Motif will
>>work with the X11R4 Xt.
>
> Yes, with certain R4 Xt patches which will be provided with Motif 1.1.
>
>Ron Birnbaum        
>OSF Systems Engineering
>ron@osf.org

Ah, so let me see if I understand this correctly.  Motif 1.1 will *NOT*
work with (MIT) X11 Release 4, with or without the current set of patches.

Presumably this also means that any application developer with an X11
binary system derived from MIT release 4 who goes out and buys the OSF
source product will find that it does *NOT* work with the binary version
of Xt which he or she possesses.

I accept that the Xt implementation in MIT release 4 might not conform to
the standard (as expressed by the documentation), but most high quality
application software developers deal with this by working round the
problems and leave the actual fixes to the people who supplied the erroneous
software.  This has obvious advantages.

John Bowler (jbowler@acorn.co.uk)