[Info-vax] VSI strategy for OpenVMS

[Bill Gunshannon]

On 9/13/21 5:53 AM, Joukj wrote:
> John Dallman wrote:
>> In article <shldvp$1jl$1 at gioia.aioe.org>, arne at vajhoej.dk (Arne Vajhøj)
>> wrote:
>>
>> I doubt, for example, that Libre Office or Firefox will be especially
>> worthwhile. Current GUI apps are likely to need more than the X11/Motif
>> stack, and providing Qt looks like a big job. Databases, middleware and
>> the like might well be more worthwhile.
>>
> Qt would be nice, but I see more applications which are based on gtk. I 
> know there exists a port of gtk1, but newer versions are not available.
> John Malmerg and myself both tried independently to get a newer versing 
> working, but only came to a versions that compiles, but crashes in most 
> cases at run-time.
> A lot of Debugging is needed. But a good version of gtk+ would realy 
> help to port a lot of nice other tools.
> 


That and fork().  :-)

bill