From: arlindo AT niteroi DOT gsfc DOT nasa DOT gov (Arlindo da Silva) Subject: Re: libXaw and the latest X11 port 22 Dec 1997 11:38:35 -0800 Message-ID: <199712221916.OAA28440.cygnus.gnu-win32@woodmore.gsfc.nasa.gov> References: <349EAE6D DOT 7964DBB6 AT microimages DOT com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: tech AT tnt DOT microimages DOT com (Jeff Chester) Cc: gnu-win32 AT cygnus DOT com Jeff, > It isn't a bug. We don't need to support Athena widgets for > our software, so we don't. Please keep in mind that MI/X was > designed to provide a cross platform interface for our > professional GIS software, TNTmips. We have provided it free > to those who may also find it useful. Development of MI/X > will be driven by the needs of TNTmips and our clients who use > TNTmips. As I mentioned, we don't need to support the Athena > widgets for our software, so we don't. Sorry, I've mispoken here and I can certainly see your reason for priotizing your development. However, you guys should consider releasing the sources for MI/X server under GPL (GNU Public License). This way people in the community could help out implementing additional features, including those features that may be useful for your product. Just a thought. -- Arlindo da Silva dasilva AT alum DOT mit DOT edu - For help on using this list (especially unsubscribing), send a message to "gnu-win32-request AT cygnus DOT com" with one line of text: "help".