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From: alen@crash.cts.com (Alen Shapiro)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: A naive question - motif on mac-os?
Summary: is anyone likely to port it?
Keywords: X windows motif mac port portability
Message-ID: <1025@crash.cts.com>
Date: 1 Jan 90 23:08:21 GMT
Reply-To: alen@crash.cts.com (Alen Shapiro)
Organization: Crash TimeSharing, El Cajon, CA
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This must be a naive question but here goes anyway...

I'm trying to write a portable application that is window based. Obvious
choice for the window layer is X-windows, it seems that Motif has gained
much favour as the interface definition of choice given portability is a
key issue and dealing with lower-level x-windows is fraught with danger
(sinister background music goes here...). I'd like to run the application
on Sun, IBM-PC/PS, Mac. Now here's the rub, the mac has a windowing system
of its own, client (not server) X-windows does not seem likely to appear
soon - and even if it did there may not be many developers that would
pick it over the ROM-based windowing facility already existing on the mac
(low demand).

However there may be developers (like me) who want to write portable windowing
code for many presentation engines and a Motif hosted on top of the MAC
ROM may be a good idea for that.

Anyone doing this? anyone likely to? any reasons why this is a stupid idea?

--alen the Lisa slayer (it's a long story)
  ...alen%shappy.uucp@crash.cts.com (a mac+ uucp host - what a concept!!)
  ...alen@crash.cts.com