grass should depend on openmotif

[macsforever2000@…]

The latest GRASS 6.4 rc6 should depend on openmotif rather than lesstif.

Why?

• Because according to the lesstif description "It has been somewhat superceded by the openMotif toolkit now that the OSF has open-sourced the original reference bits."
• lesstif conflicts with openmotif but openmotif is a dependency for 22 ports, whereas lesstif is a dependency for only 1 other port.
• I changed the dependency locally and GRASS built just fine. The configure picked it up.

So if there are no objections, I will make this change soon.

[takeshi@…]

I am fine with this. I don't have intention to maitain this package. I created an updated version of grass in my local repository when I expreimented it. I thought it would be better to share it.

[takeshi@…]

The only port that depends on lesstif appears to be ncarg, which I maintain. I am not familiar with the X11 world so I looked at both lesstif and openmotif.

• OpenMotif is proprietary vs LessTif is LGPL'd.
• Both are active projects.
• openmotif has nomaintainer whereas lesstif has a maintainer.

Probably I should make ncarg work either openmotif or lesstif by checking some library or providing variant.

[vince@…]

Ideally, grass should not depend on any Motif like library. The new 6.4 version has a GUI built around wxWidgets/wxPython, it should be made default.

[macsforever2000@…]

r68089.

[takeshi@…]

Do you mind if I changed the port dependency to library dependency as below?

lib:libXm:openmotif

[macsforever2000@…]

That's fine with me.