[oi-dev] X packages to deprecate

[Alan Coopersmith]

On 8/28/2016 3:17 AM, Udo Grabowski (IMK) wrote:
> On 28/08/2016 12:15, Volker A. Brandt wrote:
>> Udo Grabowski (IMK) writes:
>>> On 27/08/2016 20:30, Alan Coopersmith wrote:
>>>>> 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.
>>
>> The xdvi viewer from the TeXlive system also (still) uses libXaw.
>>
>
> Indeed, I forgot that, this is also used here heavily,
> so libXaw is indeed an important package to keep.

But if you're building them from source today, then you're using 
libxaw7, not libxaw4 or libxaw5 right?   I only saw 4 & 5 on the
proposed deprecation list, not 7.

	-alan-