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From: watson@spot.Eng.Sun.COM (Robert Watson)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: Re:  GUIDE
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Date: 18 Sep 90 22:24:17 GMT
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In article <998@richsun.cpg.trs.reuter.com> emike@cpg.trs.reuter.com (E. Mike Durbin) writes:
>Actually, the Beta version of Developer's Guide came with gxv (guide to
>XView), gnt
>(guide to NtN) and gsv (guide to Sun View).  The GUIDE INTERFACE
>LANGUAGE is independent
>of any windowing system.  

This is true.

>However, because Sun wants everyone to convert to XView, the
>gsv part never got out.

While what you say is true, it's not quite that straight forward.
Gsv was developed at a time when Sun was considering making the Openlook
version of Sunview(SOL) available to developers. Because of cost
considerations it was decided to throw the eggs into the XView basket,
this has resulted in the vast improvements you may have seen in 
Openwindows Version2. As gsv produced SOL code not regular Sunview we
cancelled the project.

>The answer is it could (you could write a gsv, how about a g2motif), but
>it dosn't

We are developing code generators for our OpenLook toolkits, I
seriously doubt that you'll be seeing a g2motif from here :-)

Robert Watson
Mananger, OpenWindows Developer's Guide
Sun Microsystems.
Mountain View, CA.