Re: [platform-swt-dev] Adding Motif for Mac OS X to CVS

["Mike Wilson" <Mike_Wilson@xxxxxxx>]

It's a more subtle question than it might seem. There are several ways the scripts could go in. 

The least invasive way would be to not put them in CVS at all, but just hang them off of the SWT developer resources web page. This would give you some visibility, and would probably be fine if the scripts weren't changing frequently. In fact, we could put a link from there to your web site, if you wanted.

The other alternative would be to fit them into the current SWT motif implementation in CVS. One issue with this is that, we normally have the pre-compiled binaries stored in there as well, and since you don't have commit rights, you'd end up having to send them to us every time we changed the library. Unless of course, we got set up to build them here, which in turn has other issues (like, the only mac we have is my laptop (and Andre's, but it's on another continent. ;-) ) which I'm not going to donate to the build farm, and which other processors would we have to build it for, etc.). We would also have to go the PMC and get approval for a new official "port" because of the way the Eclipse project is structured. 

Finally, I'm not sure if the Darwin license is compatible with CPL, but it would be a serious headache for us to have any other license but CPL on the scripts. This is likely fine, since they're probably derived from the existing motif ones.

McQ.

Jim White <jim@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Sent by: platform-swt-dev-admin@xxxxxxxxxxx 06/10/2002 03:48 PM Please respond to platform-swt-dev

To:        platform-swt-dev@xxxxxxxxxxx         cc:                 Subject:        [platform-swt-dev] Adding Motif for Mac OS X to CVS

While this may not be of great interest to Mac OS X users now that the 
Carbon port is getting close, using Motif (and eventually gtk2) will 
make sense for Darwin users (the Open Source base for Mac OS X sans the 
Aqua UI - http://www.opendarwin.org - also runs on X86).

Anyhow, I've put up a web page with notes on how to build Eclipse for 
Mac OS X using X11/Motif.  Pre-built binaries for Eclipse 2.0 and the 
makefile script sources are there for download.

http://www.pagesmiths.com/eclipse/

Using XFree86 4.2.0 and OpenMotif 2.2 with Eclipse 2.0 F2, there are 
nasty repaint problems with the tree control and the tabs.  Although I 
assume those are problems with OpenMotif, any insight is appreciated.  I 
also noticed the "creeping window" bug, which I understand is an Eclipse 
issue which is getting fixed.

What needs to be done so that the scripts for the Motif (and later gtk2) 
guis are included in CVS for MacOSX/Darwin?

jim


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