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From: taylort@decus.com.au (Trevor Taylor)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: Re: Porting an MIT X11R4 Application to DECWindows
Message-ID: <8736.27c83ece@decus.com.au>
Date: 24 Feb 91 12:31:41 GMT
References: <1130@nikhefh.nikhef.nl>
Organization: DECUS, South Pacific Chapter
Lines: 38

In article <1130@nikhefh.nikhef.nl>, a38@nikhefh.nikhef.nl (James Barr) writes:
> I am trying to compile an MIT X11R4 based application on a DECStation 3100
> I have the basic X stuff and the unsupported extensions but seem to be
> missing a few things, such as the simple menu widget class.  In addition
> the Xaw includes are in not where I expected.  In fact it looks a bit like
> the R3 distribution.
> 
> Could someone tell me what the state of DECWindows is and how it relates to
> the mit stuff.  How do I get around the problem?
> 

I know this came through a month ago, but it did not receive
a detailed response and I have more to say ...

DECwindows on VMS does not include the standard MIT clients nor
the Athena (Xaw) widgets. It is not likely to in the foreseeable
future either.

Currently DECwindows is only R3, and you may have significant
problems porting R4 code -- missing routines, stuff like that :-)
(There are no protocol differences, but Xlib has changed.)

The next version of DECwindows will be R4 compliant. As I was
the one who ported the R3 clients and Athena widgets for the
DECUS Library, it seems to have fallen on me to port the R4
code (again!). Hopefully, I will be able to make this available
very soon after DECwindows V3 ships, and maybe even get the
changes incorporated into R5. (Hint, hint) Meanwhile, there is 
not much you can do.

	Trevor

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