[lsb-discuss] Thinking about future LSB features

[Dallman, John]

> It would be useful for those who are asserting that there are tons and
> tons of applications that utilize Motif to run the Linux Application
> Checker on them, and upload the results into the database, so we can
> evaluate exactly how many applications could certify if we added Motif
> to the LSB.

The Linux Application checker web page at:

http://ldn.linuxfoundation.org/lsb/downloads/linux-application-checker

says "You are not authorized to access this page". Anyone got any
idea what might be wrong? 

-- 
John Dallman
Parasolid Porting Engineer

Siemens PLM Software
46 Regent Street, Cambridge, CB2 1DP
United Kingdom
Tel: +44-1223-371554
john.dallman at siemens.com
www.siemens.com/plm

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Theodore Tso [mailto:tytso at mit.edu]
> Sent: Wednesday, February 18, 2009 5:59 PM
> To: Dallman, John
> Cc: Alan Cox; lsb-discuss at lists.linux-foundation.org
> Subject: Re: [lsb-discuss] Thinking about future LSB features
> 
> On Wed, Feb 18, 2009 at 10:47:47AM -0500, Theodore Tso wrote:
> >
> > How many commercial Motif-using products are still out there, BTW?
> > Has anyone taken a census?  How big of a problem is this really?
> >
> 
> According to Database Navigator, we currently have a grand total of
> *three* commercial products utilizing libXm:
> 
>
http://dev.linuxfoundation.org/navigator/browse/lib_single.php?cmd=list
>
_lib_ints_app_usage&Lname=libXm&changearch=None&changever=3.2&changeui=
>
None&changesize=None&changecategory=None&changevendor=None&changelicens
> e=Proprietary
> 
> * GroupWise	7.01	x86
> * IBM Communications Server 	6.2.2.99	S390
> * sunstudio     12      x86
> 
> It would be useful for those who are asserting that there are tons and
> tons of applications that utilize Motif to run the Linux Application
> Checker on them, and upload the results into the database, so we can
> evaluate exactly how many applications could certify if we added Motif
> to the LSB.  (If it turns out that a bunch of the applications need
> other non-LSB libraries, or worse yet, like certain enterprise
> databases, is very tightly tied to a specific kernel version --- or,
> as was mentioned on the call, tightly tied to a specific X server
> implementation --- then the effort of adding Motif to the LSB, at
> least for that application, is moot.)
> 
> 					- Ted