[XForms] Re: XForms

[Angus Leeming]

On Friday 02 January 2004 9:55 pm, you wrote:
> The xforms download page at savannah.nongnu.org/files/?group=xforms is
> not operational. Wehre is the download page for xforms? Is xforms still
> an active project or has it gone moribund (and I should use some other
> library for my project).

The library is alive and well, but the savannah web site was hacked. 
Everything is now working fine again, but the download page is not yet 
repaired.

Find the xforms 1.0 release (871kB) at
http://www.devel.lyx.org/~leeming/xforms-1.0.tar.gz
and today's cvs snapshot (989kB) at 
http://www.devel.lyx.org/~leeming/xforms-1.0.2.tar.gz

The code is little changed, but we've migrated the build away from Imake to 
the GNU autotools. It should be trivially easy to build and install now...

> Also what is the relation between XForms and the XML forms library
> called Xforms (www.w3.org/MarkUp/Forms) I assume that the similarity of
> names is all the similarity ( and the similarity of names is ripe for
> confusion.)

There is no relation at all. The xforms gui toolkit has been around since the 
mid-80's, so could claim to have 'been there first' ...

Regards,
Angus