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From: ian@dms.cdc.com (Ian Hogg)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.hp
Subject: Re: Re: Questions about HPUX 8.0, X11R4, HP policy
Keywords: Athena Widgets, X11 R4 R5
Message-ID: <659@hewey.dms.cdc.com>
Date: 27 Dec 90 03:57:59 GMT
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Organization: Empros Systems, Control Data, Plymouth, MN
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This in regards to discussions about HP's lag behind MIT X releases:

I build the whole core distribution from HP.  I generally just play with the
server because the one built from the MIT tape is a whole lot slower than what
we get on HP-UX tapes.  However, I do install MIT libraries and useful clients.
So I end up with a hybrid system that has HP's server and the MIT libraries.
Since we license Motif I've got 1.1 compiled.  I also keep HP's libraries and
include files around in case we have problems.  

I also generally recompile things like libXaw with HP supplied Xlib and Xt.
This has worked reasonably well. 

I really, really wish thar HP would get X releases out much sooner but I've
found this solution to minimize the aches of compiling apps thar depend on
newer releases of Xlib/Xt.