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- From: fgreco@cfdev1026.shearson.com (Frank Greco)
- Newsgroups: comp.windows.open-look
- Subject: Re: deprecation/death of XView
- Message-ID: <91wcwu@openlook.Unify.Com>
- Date: 6 Nov 92 16:22:35 GMT
- Sender: news@Unify.Com
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- > In article M20@cs.psu.edu, corbet@sargon.psu.edu (Robin Corbet) writes:
- > >With the deprecation of (which presumably will lead to the death of)
- > >XView, what are people doing to ensure that their XView based code will
- > >live beyond the end of support for XView itself?
- >
- > Is XView really deprecated? Pending some substantiation I view this as
- > a very dubious rumour.
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- Chris.... It is *not* a dubious rumor. Contact the Sun Toolkits
- manager (Jim Mukerjee) and ask him yourself. I understand Xview is not
- the future, but certainly OLIT is NOT! Contact him and let him know
- what you think of their stated direction to OLIT.
-
- Frank G.
- (is it me or is Sun's overall software strategy going awry with an X-only
- DOE, no TNT/NeWS, no C++ interface to ToolTalk and [Mo]OLIT?)
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