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Conference bulova::decw_jan-89_to_nov-90

Title:	DECWINDOWS 26-JAN-89 to 29-NOV-90
Notice:	See 1639.0 for VMS V5.3 kit; 2043.0 for 5.4 IFT kit
Moderator:	STAR::VATNE

Created:	Mon Oct 30 1989
Last Modified:	Mon Dec 31 1990
Last Successful Update:	Fri Jun 06 1997
Number of topics:	3726
Total number of notes:	19516

1818.0. "DECwindows V1.0 from VMS5.3 ??" by JGL::JLENIHAN (Byte Twiddler) Thu Nov 30 1989 11:47

Maybe this has been asked before... 

  Is there anyway (hackery or otherwise) that having installed VMS 5.3 (SSB) 
and DECwindows V2.0 that I can now get DECwindows V1.0 to run under VMS 5.3 ? 
The reason that I want this is that certain layered products, LISP to mention 
one, are not synched to run with DECwindows V2.0, at the moment.

� J.

T.R	Title	User	Personal Name	Date	Lines
1818.1		ULTRA::WRAY	John Wray, Secure Systems Development	`Thu Nov 30 1989 12:44`	14
	I hope you've submitted a high-priority QAR against DECwindows for any change you've found between V1 and V2 that breaks a VMS layered product. One of the major selling-points of VMS is that applications developed under one version will run without change on future versions, and since DECwindows is supplied as part of VMS, customers will (rightly) expect this upward-compatibility to apply to DECwindows too. I found it irritating in the extreme that the sizes of some of the widgets had changes between V1 and V2, meaning I had to adjust my UIL. If you've found a case where something actually breaks (rather than merely looks ugly) as a result of the upgrade, that is a serious problem. John
1818.2	Still looking for a hack ...	JGL::JLENIHAN	Byte Twiddler	`Thu Nov 30 1989 12:57`	14
	> I hope you've submitted a high-priority QAR against DECwindows for any > change you've found between V1 and V2 that breaks a VMS layered > product. Just off the top of my head..what about the fact that a new version of VAX Notes had to be issued. In addition, the LISP developers have said that LISP V3.0, fully supported under 5.1-1 down to 5.1 (ie. DECwindows V1.0) is unsupported AT THE MOMENT under DECwindows V2.0. (In fact, it's going to require a new release!) Enuf of that ...Anyone any ideas on the original topic? � j.