[oi-dev] Packages only in the main repository

[Aurélien Larcher]

On Wed, Oct 24, 2018 at 5:44 PM Alan Coopersmith <
alan.coopersmith at oracle.com> wrote:

> On 10/24/18 06:14 AM, Udo Grabowski (IMK) wrote:
> > On 24/10/2018 14:39, Aurélien Larcher wrote:
> > Motif is still needed for some applications, but isn't there OpenMotif ?
>
> Yes - but it's not binary compatible with the old Solaris Motif 1.2 or 2.1
> so you'll need to recompile the apps to use it.
>
> > libXaw is still needed, but again, freedesktop.org has a free
> alternative.
>
> Right - these are the X11R4 & X11R5 versions for backwards binary
> compatibility.
> X.Org currently ships libXaw7 upstream, which is in a different OI package.
>
> > CDE is dead, and people that used it should be, too (I feel sick...).
>
> Hey!  Just because we're old doesn't mean we're useless!
>
> > libowconfig....oh my god, OpenWindows, olwm ?
>
> That was  a badly named Xsun configuration library - I have no idea why
> anything would still be using it.  We dropped it in Solaris 11.4 after
> modifying fbconfig (SPARC graphics config utility) to stop using it:
>
> https://github.com/oracle/solaris-xorg/commit/ecb865891b0685db5d
>
> > SUNWxwinc/plt are just Meta-incorporation packages for Xwindows
> > application groups; useful as such, they may be renamed and kept.
>
> They were a transition aid for old SVR4 packages that depended on
> the SVR4 SUNWxwplt & SUNWxwinc, which bundled all the X libraries
> and clients together before we split them into individual packages
> to match upstream.
>
> If you want to publish them, the sources are in:
>
> https://github.com/oracle/solaris-xorg/tree/1c94357064e1b34d3bcec7c43b60ba45ba3114e1/pkg/manifests
>
> (We also dropped them in Solaris 11.4.)
>

Alan, thank you for providing all this background information and pointers
to solaris-xorg.

Would you recommend still providing binaries for Motif and the old Athena
Widgets?

Kind regards,

Aurélien



>
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