HP van Braam on Nostr: I've been playing around a bit with #motif and there's a pile of distro patches ...
I've been playing around a bit with #motif and there's a pile of distro patches (Fedora, Debian, etc) and there's a sourceforge page with pull requests.
No pull requests have ever been accepted, the official ICS bug tracker is offline and looks like has been since 2021.
Who maintains Motif now? Does anyone? Do we need to do an "xorg for Motif" if we want to keep it going?
#retrocomputing #unix
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