To: Carol.Adams@Corp, siegel
In-reply-to: Carol Adams's message of Thu, 25 Jul 91 09:55:03 PDT <9107251655.AA02018@spirits.Corp.Sun.COM>
Subject: simcity for suns
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XView is a dead toolkit. It was designed for porting SunView applications
to X, and is only interesting if your program already runs on SunView. Sun
is trying very hard to dump XView (euphemistically putting it into
"methadone" maintance mode), and fatal bugs are not being fixed because
fixing them would require a total redesign of the code, and that's not
going to happen.  It's a very bad idea porting Sim City to XView. To get an
feeling for the state of XView look at the astounding number of bugs in
/net/elmer.eng/export/bugtraq/bugs/grepfiles/xview, and run "xbugtool,"
which is the bug reporting tool written in xview, that itself is a showcase
of xview bugs, mis-features, and cases of pathetic behavior that xbugtool
implementors and users are resigned to live with, because they will never
be fixed.

We will do anything we can to help port SimCity to TNT. It will take a lot
less time than porting to XView, result in a much higher quality user
interface, and we will be a lot more responsive fixing any bugs you
encounter using the toolkit. If you ask Scott McNealy, he will tell you
that NeWS is the future at Sun. 

	-Don