From sq!sq.com!ian Thu Apr 20 19:27 EDT 1995 From: hopkins@cs.cmu.edu (Don Hopkins) Subject: Re: SunSoft Windows Toolkits Positioning Content-Length: 2150 Status: RO Content-Type: text X-Lines: 44 mukerjee@sereno.Eng.Sun.COM (Jim Mukerjee) writes: > ************************************************************************ > SUNSOFT WINDOWS TOOLKITS POSITIONING > ************************************************************************ > > There has been significant network traffic lately speculating on > the current positioning and future support of SunSoft Windows > Toolkits, specifically related to XView and OLIT. As with most > rumors, much of the network traffic relating to XView has been > in error. The brief statement below should put to rest the gossip, > innuendo and inaccurate conclusions, and allow developers to > get back to real work. There is one glaring ommission from your announcement, and that's TNT, The NeWS Toolkit, which last I heard from Steve MacKay and Scott McNealy, was one of Sun's supported Open Look toolkits. There was no mention of TNT in Sun's announcement about Display PostScript. Has there been an official announcement about Sun's support for TNT? I have developed and worked with several products based on TNT, including HyperLook and SimCity, so I would like to know. What are companies who have NeWS products, like Aldus, Frame, the Turing Institute, and DUX Software, supposed to do? I used to work on TNT at Sun, but I resigned my job because I did not believe Steve MacKay and Scott McNealy were telling the truth when they said they would support it, and they expected me to pass that lie onto the customers, like Frame and Turing. I am afraid that Sun is going to change their tune on XView and OLIT, the same way they flip-flopped on TNT. So would you please address the following questions: Q1. Is TNT still supported by SunSoft? Q2. Will there be more releases of TNT? Q3. I've heard that TNT may no longer be shipped after this year. Is this true? Q4. When will TNT be EOLed? Q5. Will TNT source ever be publicly available? Q6. Will there be any new features added to TNT? Q7. Should I rewrite my application in DPS? Q8. Is there a significant engineering effort behind TNT? Q9. What is Sun's current feeling about NeWS? -Don