[oi-dev] X packages to deprecate

[Udo Grabowski (IMK)]

On 27/08/2016 20:30, Alan Coopersmith wrote:
> On 08/27/16 04:40 AM, Aurélien Larcher wrote:
>> Are we able to simply and effectively deprecate these packages or are
>> there issues to foresee?
>
> You can probably guess my opinion based on how many of them I've already
> obsoleted in  https://hg.java.net/hg/solaris-x11~x-s12-clone/ but since
> others asked what these do, I can provide some background.
>.....
>> pkg:/compatibility/packages/SUNWxwplr at 0.5.11,5.11-2013.0.0.0
>> pkg:/compatibility/packages/SUNWxwplt at 0.5.11,5.11-2013.0.0.0
>.....

These two (or at least plt) are needed for the Oracle 11gR2 database.

> ....
>> pkg:/x11/library/toolkit/libxaw4 at 0.5.11,5.11-2013.0.0.0
>> pkg:/x11/library/toolkit/libxaw5 at 0.5.11,5.11-2013.0.0.0
>
> These provide backwards binary compatibility for Xaw apps compiled on older
> Solaris releases - libXaw4 for those built on Solaris 2.2 or prior (yes,
> 1992ish), libXaw5 for those build on Solaris 2.3 through 10.
>
> libXaw7 is the current version of this, introduced to OpenSolaris in 2008.
>
>....

There are a few programs out there needed that use this library,
xfig being the most prominent of these. It's very old, but has no
functional equivalent in the whole UNIX world ('dia' miserably
failed to become one), and is still the most useful program in
that area that I've ever encountered. I have patches to compile it
with the netpbm packages on OI, so this is still functional.


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