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>roseman@cpsc.ucalgary.ca writes

>i see in graphics/interviews@sgi.com there's a beta-4 release of 3.1.
>help!  can we get a half-decent statement from anyone (stanford/sgi/mit..)
>what the level of commitment and support is for interviews?  to say nothing
>of a really rough hacky tentative schedule?  (say within an order of
>magnitude of accuracy).  any plans for 3.x commercial releases in the works?
>
>who's doing stuff based on expected future functionality?  i keep having
>second thoughts about continuing my stuff in iv .. which is too bad, 
>technically there's a lot of good things here.

Beta 4 is news to me.  I don't see that as being "official" code since
Mark Linton didn't announce it.

The MIT X consortium is considering making InterViews/Fresco a standard for the
R6 distribution, which is planned to be delivered before the end of 1993.
Of course it will go through a review process and an internal vote.
Its fair to say that the membership has various opionions on the technology.
I personaly do not see any viable alternatives for an individual who wishes
to do gui development in an environment that has OO language support but then
I just work here and don't run things :-).  The massive existing investment
in Xt and its dogma could mean no consortium standard, but it will not
kill off the system.  Various people are working on things like
documentation, multi-threading, and interchangability of glyphs and Xt widgets
in the same application.  Perhaps you could elaboate on your reservations.
I learn alot about programming a large c++ system by studying and working
inside InterViews so I don't see any senario emerging that would render
my time as wasted...



				dave sternlicht
				mit X consortium
				dave@expo.lcs.mit.edu