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From: vania@osf.ORG (Vania Joloboff)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: Re: Motif 1.1 and R4 Xlib not compatible
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Date: 26 Sep 90 16:02:24 GMT
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>    Jim Gettys said, in one of his less oblique postings, that he would get
>     fix-15 out soon.
> 
> Jim Gettys does not work here.  Perhaps you meant someone else.
> 
>     The Motif patch is fix-15.  You just got it the fast way.
> 
> It is seldom the case that non-MIT people should attempt to speak for MIT.
> I don't know for certain that "the Motif patch" will be byte-for-byte
> identical to any "fix-15" that we might put out.  I can only think of
> one person here at MIT that does know for certain. 

Motif 1.1 requires the Xt R4 library from the X Consortium,
with all patches up to *14*.

When running the final regression test suite, the day before making
the tape, OSF found a fatal bug in Xt (note this bug only occurs in
some rather obscure combination of translation table and destroyed
widgets). We also found a fix for that bug. Because it was one day
before release, we could not work it out with MIT and we put the fix
on the Motif tape. This is now rumored as the "osf-fix".

Since release time, we have been working closely on this bug with
Ralph Swick at MIT and it is in progress. MIT has been working on a
more general fix, which fixes the bug not only for Motif, but for
other toolkits as well.

When the fix becomes publicly available from MIT, Motif users
should back-up the osf-fix and replace it with the official MIT fix.

One again:

   Motif 1.1 is compliant to the Consortium R4 Xt specifications.
   Motif 1.1 requires a (fixed) implementation of the R4 Xt Consortium specs.
   Motif 1.1 does not require a specific OSF version of Xt.
   

	-- Vania Joloboff, Engineering Manager for OSF/Motif.