adding motif to guix

adding motif to guix

[Andy Tai]

Hi, motif was a major component of Unix for many years and it would be
good to add the (now free software) motif to GNU Guix.  Can package
reviewers take a look of the patch in this issue

https://issues.guix.gnu.org/59092

Thanks

Re: adding motif to guix

[Eric Brown]

Andy Tai <atai@atai.org> writes:

> Hi, motif was a major component of Unix for many years and it would be
> good to add the (now free software) motif to GNU Guix.  Can package
> reviewers take a look of the patch in this issue
>
> https://issues.guix.gnu.org/59092
>
> Thanks

Hello Andy:

By chance is this the same as `openmotif' that is found in the likes of
Debian, also referenced by programs such as GNU Emacs (--with-x-toolkit)
?

Thanks,
Eric

Re: adding motif to guix

[Andy Tai]

It should be; openmotif was just some kind of marketing term

Although guix has some existing packages using lesstif, the now dead
early motif clone (as free software) and I don't know if emacs may be
using that...

On Sun, Jan 8, 2023 at 4:15 PM Eric Brown <eric.c.brown@mac.com> wrote:
>
> Andy Tai <atai@atai.org> writes:
>
> > Hi, motif was a major component of Unix for many years and it would be
> > good to add the (now free software) motif to GNU Guix.  Can package
> > reviewers take a look of the patch in this issue
> >
> > https://issues.guix.gnu.org/59092
> >
> > Thanks
>
> Hello Andy:
>
> By chance is this the same as `openmotif' that is found in the likes of
> Debian, also referenced by programs such as GNU Emacs (--with-x-toolkit)
> ?
>
> Thanks,
> Eric

Re: adding motif to guix

[Eric Brown]

Andy Tai <atai@atai.org> writes:

> It should be; openmotif was just some kind of marketing term
>
> Although guix has some existing packages using lesstif, the now dead
> early motif clone (as free software) and I don't know if emacs may be
> using that...
>

Thanks for the clarification. My interest in this package is because
openmotif is the best of the X window managers that do not suffer from
a rather infamous and longstanding GTK bug which will bring down Emacs.

Re: adding motif to guix

[David Pirotte]

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> ...
> Thanks for the clarification. My interest in this package is because
> openmotif is the best of the X window managers that do not suffer from
> a rather infamous and longstanding GTK bug which will bring down
> Emacs.

Fwiw, debian has an 'emacs-lucid' package (maintained by the debian
guile packages maintainer) that does not depends on Gtk (which i didn't
find on https://packages.guix.gnu.org/)

David

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Re: adding motif to guix

[Andy Tai]

For these interested, this issue/patch adds emacs using motif to Guix

https://issues.guix.gnu.org/61421

Please review... etc.

On Sun, Jan 8, 2023 at 7:01 PM Eric Brown <eric.c.brown@mac.com> wrote:
> My interest in this package is because
> openmotif is the best of the X window managers that do not suffer from
> a rather infamous and longstanding GTK bug which will bring down Emacs.
>

Re: adding motif to guix

[Tobias Geerinckx-Rice]

Hi!

Not a review, but how is *tif ‘not an X toolkit’...?  Why not just say it ‘uses *tif’, instead?

Kind regards,

T G-R

Sent on the go.  Excuse or enjoy my brevity.