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From: cook@sgi.com (Doug Cook)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: Re: Problems with Makeing XView2.0 on a SUN 3(and 4, too!)
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Date: 17 Aug 90 20:29:28 GMT
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In article <6525@helios.ee.lbl.gov> antony@george.lbl.gov (Antony A. Courtney) writes:
>I'm a bit amused really.  I have been programming XView applications since it
>was in a primordial, pre-pre-alpha state and the toolkit was not called XView,
>but rather View2.  I found this latest name kind of funny because XView2 means
>the name has made a full circle.  Looks like they even brought back that same
>level of functionality that View2 had.... :-P :-(

You might be a bit less amused to find that the name is NOT XView2; it's 
XView, and the version is 2.0. If it doesn't build from scratch at the
first release and work perfectly on every piece of hardware known to man, 
for heaven's sake, give the people a break. Writing imakefiles and setting 
up a source release distribution is a gargantuan job, especially for a piece 
of software the size of XView. I was actually pretty impressed with the 
quality of the release, and I'm sure most of the little glitches in the build 
process will be worked out eventually.

	-Doug

Doug Cook
Video Group, Advanced Systems Division
Silicon Graphics, Inc.