svn commit: r412033 - in head/x11-toolkits: . Xmt Xmt/files

[Cy Schubert]

In message <20160328092555.GE36953 at ivaldir.etoilebsd.net>, Baptiste 
Daroussin w
rites:
> On Mon, Mar 28, 2016 at 06:10:10AM +0000, Cy Schubert wrote:
> > Author: cy
> > Date: Mon Mar 28 06:10:10 2016
> > New Revision: 412033
> > URL: https://svnweb.freebsd.org/changeset/ports/412033
> >=20
> > Log:
> >   Welcome the new x11-tookits/Xmt port.
> >  =20
> >   Xmt is a Motif Tools library, introduced in the book Motif Tools
> >   (ISBN 1-56592-044-9). The Xmt Motif Tools library provides developers
> >   of user interfaces tools that make Motif easier to use.  Xmt consists
> >   of the core library of additional widgets, utility programs, docs,
> >   tutorials, and example code.
> 
> Wow last release in 2001 a website where more than half of the links are de=
> ad
> links (in particular the documentation). This project is dead for more than=
>  15
> years. Is there reallly any value added by having this port in? Maybe you p=
> lan
> to import some higher level ports using it?
> 
> I don't really care, just it feels strange to add something abandonned for =
> that
> long in the ports tree.

It's still in use by some. I happen to have some apps that use it (using 
the original library that came with the CD that accompanied the book -- 
version 1.0.0). The latest book became Volume 6C of the Oreilly X11 
library, considering this is also an extension to Motif toolkit.


-- 
Cheers,
Cy Schubert <Cy.Schubert at komquats.com> or <Cy.Schubert at cschubert.com>
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	The need of the many outweighs the greed of the few.