[XForms] OpenVMS version of xforms

[Angus Leeming]

On Monday 05 April 2004 3:56 pm, Gayle C Roth wrote:
> I'm trying to get an OpenVMS version of xforms.  Does anyone know
> the CURRENT web site with the downloads, with the operating system
> names next to their links?  I went to the web site
> http://world.std.com/~xforms/ftp/ftp.html, which had an OpenVMS
> link.  This however is outdated since the only thing I got was a
> README that said that site is no longer the repository, and the
> repository now
> is:  http://savannah.nongnu.org/files/?group=xforms.  That site has
> several downloads but nothing next to the file names (i.e. no
> indication of which one is for which operating system).  Can
> someone tell me how to get an openVMS (or just plain VMS) download?

Hi, Gayle.

xforms has moved to an Open Source licence meaning that there's no 
need for us to provide binaries for tens of different platforms. Grab 
the source and compile it.

The xforms 1.0 release uses xmkmf and family to generate the 
Makefiles. It is kludgy and I don't think that anybody here knows 
much about it.

The xforms 1.0.90 pre-release for xforms 1.1 uses the gnu autotools to 
generate the Makefiles. We'd be very grateful if you could try it out 
on your box. The source itself is little changed from xforms 1.0 
modulo a fair number of bug fixes.

Regards,
Angus