0.93 on Digital Unix and Linux

[Mark Shinwell]

On Fri, Mar 17, 2000 at 02:13:44AM +1100, Michael Lake wrote:
> Olly Betts wrote:
> > 
> > In message <38CFAF8C.42864D77@zoo.ox.ac.uk>, John Pybus writes:
> > >Xcaverot isn't really under much active development at the moment.  I
> > >got it working in 96, and added a few experimental bits shortly after,
> > >but never got round to properly tidying it up.
> > 
> > Ideally I'd like to phase out xcaverot in favour of aven.  But there
> > are barriers to this - xcaverot just requires an ANSI C compiler and
> > the most basic X libraries; aven requires a C++ compiler, GTK, GTK--,
> > and some gnome libraries.
> 
> I find that xcaverot is usually fine for my needs when working with
> others to find mistakes in our survey data. Its fast,
 
                                                  ^^^^
(ahem)  Yeah, right!

It is possible that I could do a plain Xlib version of Aven without any fancy
features; the core code would not be that difficult to port.  (And I bet it
would run even faster).

But unfortunately I have Finals in eleven weeks, so it'll have to wait until
after that, I suspect!
 
Mark

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