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Summary: Review Request: xview - XView widget libraries
           Product: Fedora Extras
           Version: devel
          Platform: All
        OS/Version: Linux
            Status: NEW
          Severity: normal
          Priority: normal
         Component: Package Review
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Spec URL: ftp://ftp.licr.org/pub/xview.spec
SRPM URL: ftp://ftp.licr.org/pub/xview-3.2-0.1.p4.src.rpm
Description:
XView (X Window-System-based Visual/Integrated Environment for Workstations)
is a user-interface toolkit to support interactive, graphics-based
applications running under the X Window System.  XView provides a set of
pre-built, user-interface objects such as canvases, scrollbars, menus, and
control panels.  The appearance and functionality of these objects follow
the OPEN LOOK Graphical User Interface (GUI) specification.  XView features
an object-oriented style Application Programmer's Interface (API) that is
straightforward and easy to learn.

This is pretty much vintage stuff :-)

There are a few useful pieces of scientific software that depend on the xview package.  I intend to submit some of them over time, starting with treetool.

This review request is to get the ball rolling.  Some discussion already occured on f-e-l: https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-extras-list/2006-October/msg00643.htm...

It looks like we will have to exclude 64-bit architectures for now, and use the 32-bit packages on x86_64.

Hans, please add your patches to this ticket...  tia :-)

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------- Additional Comments From [e-mail]  2006-11-09 05:11 EST -------
Maybe it would be interesting to submit treetool before the 
review is completed such that we can test that xview works 
correctly on treetools, otherwise there is no test case.

I'll follow the review, but I'd like to avoid formally reviewing 
the package for obvious reasons...

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------- Additional Comments From [e-mail]  2006-11-09 05:16 EST -------
(In reply to comment #1)
> Maybe it would be interesting to submit treetool before the 
> review is completed such that we can test that xview works 
> correctly on treetools, otherwise there is no test case.

Will do ASAP.  I'm currently waiting for the OA to clarify the license terms
(he already said in PM he has no problem to put this in FE, but hasn't decided
yet which exact license to use)...

In the meantime, there are a few clients (cmdtool, shelltool, clock) already
included in the xview package.
> I'll follow the review, but I'd like to avoid formally reviewing 
> the package for obvious reasons...

Sure, np.  Thanks for putting it together in the first place.

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------- Additional Comments From [e-mail]  2006-11-09 14:21 EST -------
Created an attachment (id=140809)
 --> (https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/attachment.cgi?id=140809&action=vie...)
Patch with some interesting fixes from Suse

I've spend some hours taking a look and I've come to the same conclusion
as the Debian maintainer, this is very hard to fix for 64 bit. More then
that fixing probably will also include fixing / changing all xview using
clients!

Luckily all 64 bit platforms we support also have a 32 bit compatibility
option, so I think we should just not build xview (and apps using it)
for x86_64 / ppc64. It would be a good idea IMHO in cases like this to
add xview + deps + packages using it to a list of packages to copy over
to the x86_64 repo from the i386 repo, so that it will be readily
available for those who want it.

My taking a look started with suse since they had x86_64 packages of
xview in their repo, but appearantly these have had the famous suse QA
done do them (iow none). I did find some other interesting patches in
there, which I have bundled in a smaller one with possible real fixes
and a larger one which fixes a load of warnings (but no where near all
warnings). I also have a patch which fixes some 64 bit related warnings
by adding the necessary prototypes, which isn't enough to get this
running but IMHO still should be applied / send upstream (Debian claims
to be upstream these days) as it is an improvement.

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------- Additional Comments From [e-mail]  2006-11-09 14:22 EST -------
Created an attachment (id=140810)
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Patch fixing a bunch of warnings

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------- Additional Comments From [e-mail]  2006-11-09 14:23 EST -------
Created an attachment (id=140811)
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Patch: add some missing prototypes fixing a few 64 bit related warnings (but 64
bit is still nogo)

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------- Additional Comments From [e-mail]  2007-06-09 20:28 EST -------
Christian ping ?

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------- Additional Comments From [e-mail]  2007-06-10 04:11 EST -------
yea, I'm still here... but haven't had any time to work on this.
But there's hope...

Are you interested in helping ?

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------- Additional Comments From [e-mail]  2007-06-11 08:47 EST -------
Ok, I made some progress.  New SRPM and spec here:
ftp://ftp.licr.org/pub/xview.spec
ftp://ftp.licr.org/pub/xview-3.2p1.4-0.fc7.src.rpm

I still haven't heard back from the treetool maintainer (and poked him again,
we'll see).
In the meantime: any idea which xview-using package would be suitable as guinea
pig?  I thought about workman, but I don't think anyone would actually use it :-)

This thing compiles and runs on i386 (and probably ppc) in 32 bit.  There are
still quite a few worrisome compiler warnings.  And much more work to get it to
run on 64-bit machines.  I didn't see any progress in Debian on this front.

rpmlint seems mostly happy

I'd still like to clean it up further, but this is where I got so far and it
might already be useful to other folks as-is...

Thanks to Hans for all the work he put into this already.

Of course, if anyone is interested in co-maintaining, I'd be delighted

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------- Additional Comments From [e-mail]  2007-06-11 13:26 EST -------
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> > Are you interested in helping ?

yes. ;-)

okay, i'll check this out on x86_64.

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------- Additional Comments From [e-mail]  2007-11-18 23:34 EST -------
This ticket is now over a year old; is it dead yet?  Or is there still interest
in moving it forward?

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------- Additional Comments From [e-mail]  2007-11-19 03:02 EST -------
(In reply to comment #10)
> This ticket is now over a year old; is it dead yet?

Not, dead... just in deep slumber :)
> Or is there still interest in moving it forward?

I'm still interested to see this in, somehow.

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------- Additional Comments From [e-mail]  2007-11-19 14:59 EST -------
So what needs to happen?  I mean, you could use ExclusiveArch: i386 (and maybe
ppc too) but that seems somewhat pointless.

There are a few other things that would need to be fixed: "Distributable" is
never OK for a License: and you'd need to remove or split off the static libraries.

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------- Additional Comments From [e-mail]  2007-11-19 16:17 EST -------
(In reply to comment #12)
> So what needs to happen?  I mean, you could use ExclusiveArch: i386 (and maybe
> ppc too) but that seems somewhat pointless.
>
> There are a few other things that would need to be fixed: "Distributable" is
> never OK for a License: and you'd need to remove or split off the static

libraries.

That sort of went under the radar for a while now.  But I'll try to find some
time and clean up the mess a bit.

I wanted to take a second hard look to see if it would be feasible to make this
64-bit clean...  but I could start with a bunch of ExcludeArch.

The thing is that if I distribute a 32-bit only package first, things will
probably break when the code is cleaned for 64-bits.  So I'm a bit hesitant...

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------- Additional Comments From [e-mail]  2008-01-27 15:27 EST -------
I guess it's time to ping on this old ticket.  Has there been any progress?

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------- Additional Comments From [e-mail]  2008-01-28 03:34 EST -------
No progress: -ENOTIME...

I still intend to get back to it when time permits.  If you'd rather see this
one closed, I can always reopen a new one when I'm ready.

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------- Additional Comments From [e-mail]  2008-01-28 13:26 EST -------
All I can say is that as long as this ticket is open, I'll keep pinging it.  So
if you'd like a reminder ever couple of months then sure, leave it open.

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------- Additional Comments From [e-mail]  2008-01-28 17:29 EST -------
(In reply to comment #16)
> So if you'd like a reminder ever couple of months then sure, leave it open.

Fine with me :-)

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------- Additional Comments From [e-mail]  2008-04-04 17:45 EST -------
Well, I promised I'd ping every couple of months, and I'm about a week late. 
Any progress?

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------- Additional Comments From [e-mail]  2008-04-07 09:18 EST -------
No progress... (gee, time flies...)

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--- Comment #20 from Christian Iseli   2008-10-22 18:03:41 EDT ---
Still no progress...

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--- Comment #21 from Caius "kaio" Chance   2009-02-17 01:04:05 EDT ---
ping :)

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--- Comment #22 from Christian Iseli   2009-02-17 04:00:35 EDT ---
Still here and still haven't lost interest, and doing my best not to lose
hope...

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--- Comment #23 from Jussi Lehtola   2009-07-16 07:44:31 EDT ---
spec url doesn't work.

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--- Comment #24 from Christian Iseli   2009-07-16 08:11:41 EDT ---
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> spec url doesn't work.

Strange.  Works for me...
> From where are you trying to access it, and what exactly happens ?

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--- Comment #25 from Jussi Lehtola   2009-07-16 08:26:35 EDT ---
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> (In reply to comment #23)
> > spec url doesn't work.
>
> Strange.  Works for me...
> From where are you trying to access it, and what exactly happens ?

Okay, that was a problem with Chromium. With Firefox it works fine.

(I'm still waiting for ftp servers to vanish from the face of the earth, as
well as any other protocols that aren't firewall safe.)

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--- Comment #26 from Christian Iseli   2009-07-16 09:12:12 EDT ---
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> (I'm still waiting for ftp servers to vanish from the face of the earth, as
> well as any other protocols that aren't firewall safe.)

eh ... :-)

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--- Comment #27 from Caius 'kaio' Chance  2010-04-28 21:05:19 EDT ---
Ping? I would suggest to close this ticket.

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--- Comment #28 from Christian Iseli  2010-04-29 04:12:21 EDT ---
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> Ping? I would suggest to close this ticket.

Ok.  Still haven't found enough time to work on this unfortunately.