Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!mcsun!cernvax!chx400!pan!jw
From: jw@pan.UUCP (Jamie Watson)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: Motif 1.1 and R4 Xlib not compatible
Message-ID: <997@pan.UUCP>
Date: 24 Sep 90 21:10:23 GMT
Reply-To: jw@pan.UUCP (Jamie Watson)
Organization: Adasoft AG, Solothurn, Switzerland
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I brought this up some time ago, when Motif 1.1 was announced.  Several
people at the OSF said very clearly that Motif 1.1 would be based on
the standard MIT Xt.

I've just seen the Motif 1.1 distribution tape, and this simply is not
true.  The version of Xt on the Motif tape is the MIT version, plus all
fourteen official patches, *PLUS* another patch.  Apparently this patch
has been submitted to MIT, but has not yet been incorporated in a patch
issued by MIT for general use.

So, I would like to know what the real story here is.  Is this simply
a case of a delay at MIT?  I've seen a couple of ablique references
in postings from there to a patch 15 - perhaps this will inlcude the
OSF fixes?  Or is this just another case of the OSF assuming that they
can do whatever they want, and everyone else will just have to go along
with them?

As I said before, I absolutely don't want to be put in the position of
having to keep two complete, incompatible, copies of Xt around.

jw