The Free Widget Foundation
Brian Totty
Department of Computer Science
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
1304 West Springfield Avenue
Urbana, IL 61801
free-widgets-info@let.rug.nl
THE FREE WIDGET FOUNDATION
The Free Widget Foundation (FWF) was first organized in the summer of 1990, as
a grass-roots, all-volunteer effort to generate a publically accessible
repository for X widgets. The goal of the FWF was to gather a set of
powerful, flexible, freely-accessible widgets, assisting programmers to
construct complicated user-interfaces. Furthermore, we wanted to discourage
multiple parties from "reinventing the widget" multiple times, and encourage
the development of a single, quality object.
Change motif to a normal dependency. REQUIRES_MOTIF is now called USE_MOTIF
and generates a LIB_DEPENDS to x11-toolkits/open-motif. As before, it implies
USE_XPM (and therefore USE_XLIB). Motif-dummy is removed from
PKG_IGNORE_DEPENDS, whose sole resident is now XFree86-3.
(1) Add new variable, XFREE86_VERSION, to specify which version of XFree86
(3 or 4) to depend to when USE_XLIB is set. XFREE86_VERSION defaults to 3
for now, but adventurous users can override it in /etc/make.conf. When
XFREE86_VERSION=3, USE_XLIB will add a dependency to x11/XFree86; when it
is set to 4, the dependency will be to x11/XFree86-4-libraries. When
XFREE86_VERSION=4, the PKG_IGNORE_DEPENDS and ALWAYS_BUILD_DEPENDS hacks
to avoid messing with XFree86 are turned off.
