From: Wolfram Gloger <wm...@dent.med.uni-muenchen.de>
Subject: Re: Questionable GNU projects
Date: 1997/07/18
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kdp0...@hpmail.lrz-muenchen.de writes:

> It would be enough to write a GPLed replacement for xforms (I hear
> there already is one,but I forgot the name)

wxWindows is an excellent replacement for xforms; it uses C++, but not
any of the newer/more esoteric features, and hence compiles on
practically any C++ compiler (including gcc, even version 2.5).  I've
wanted to port LyX to wxWin for a long time, but have lacked the
opportunity...

> IMHO it's 
> better for the free software community to contribute to already
> existing free projects to make them usable than to start new ones.

This is _so_ true.  wxWindows has been around for more than 4 years,
still people start from scratch again and again to develop GUI
toolkits -- or worse, they base free software on non-free toolkits
(like xforms or Qt), when there are excellent, free alternatives
readily available.

Regards,
Wolfram.