AW: Future problem with Motif

[Malcolm Williamson]

My $.02: The only portion of XGRASS that is worth saving is xdigit, which 
is a stand-alone program. We used to use XGRASS in our teaching 
environment, but found it to be more trouble than it's worth. I am 
currently teaching an academic GRASS class, and we will stick to the 
command line, possibly using the Solaris version of GRASSLAND for 
cartographic output. As both XGRASS and GRASSLAND still rely on 
underlying command line structure, I feel that students benefit most by 
learning the basics. As GRASSLAND is developed further, there may come a 
time that I actually teach using it, but XGRASS is just too clunky for 
everyday use (again, with the exception of xdigit!).

Perhaps you could talk to the LAS (GRASSLAND) folks and offer to do the 
port to SGI :)

Just my opinion, not necessarily that of CAST or the 
University of Arkansas (or my boss!).
--
Malcolm D. Williamson - GIS Specialist           E-mail: malcolm at cast.uark.edu
Center for Advanced Spatial Technologies      Telephone: (501) 575-6159
Ozark Rm. 12                                        Fax: (501) 575-5218 
University of Arkansas              
Fayetteville, AR 72701

On Mon, 30 Sep 1996, Justin Hickey wrote:

> Hello Andreas
> 
> On Sep 24, 12:40pm, ww wrote:
> > Subject: AW: Future problem with Motif
> > Hello,
> >
> >     You are able to compile XGRASS using Motif 2.0. The
> >     _Xme functions are still availabe in Motif 2.0, but You have
> >     to reactivate them.
> >
> > Andreas
> >-- End of excerpt from ww
> 
> Thank you for passing on this information, however, the problem I was trying 
to
> present was that in the future (maybe in a few years), OSF may release a
> version of Motif that no longer supports the _Xm functions currently used in
> XGRASS. If this happens and the XGRASS code remains unchanged, then XGRASS wi
ll
> no longer compile.
> 
> Since CERL no longer supports code development for GRASS and XGRASS, any majo
r
> changes are left to the grass programming community, and I thought that I wou
ld
> present this problem to that community to see what other grass programmers
> thought. Apparently, this problem is not considered a major concern since you
> are the first, (and so far the only) person to reply to my original post.
> 
> Who knows, maybe someday, XGRASS will be replaced with some other interface
> (possibly the one from GRASSLANDS although they don't have a version for the
> SGI yet:)
> 
> -- 
> Sincerely,
> 
> Jazzman (a.k.a. Justin Hickey)
> High Performance Computing Center
> National Electronics and Computer Technology Center (NECTEC)
> Bangkok, Thailand
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