In article <43bvuh$caf at gwdu19.gwdg.de>, kim at mpiz-koeln.mpg.de (Jan T. Kim) writes:
>joe at evolution.genetics.washington.edu (Joe Felsenstein) wrote:
>>>This is almost a perfect description of the very nice X windows program
>>TreeTool. Here is a description of it, from my PHYLIP documentation and
>>from our Web-borne phylogeny software list
>>http://evolution.genetics.washington.edu/software.html>>>>"Mike Maciukenas, at the Department of Microbiology of the University
>>of Illinois, has written a wonderful X-windows based interactive tree-plotting
>>program called TreeTool. It takes as input a PHYLIP tree file, [...]
>>Thank you for this info. Unfortunately, however, TreeTool does not only need
>X, but also XView, which apparently compiles on Sun workstations. I have not
>been able to compile XView on the Indigo here, so it seems I won't be able to
>compile and use TreeTool :-(
>
I'll second that.
Will all you developers who use Suns *please* stop requiring XView for your
X11 applications - it just isn't that portable, and a lot of us don't have
Suns. My other pet peeve - please be sure that your code will pass cleanly
through your ANSI C compiler in its strictest mode. On every Unix system
I've used the ANSI C compiler defaults to a (very) "relaxed" mode, giving
the programmer the false sense that they are writing ANSI C clean code when
they are not.
Regards,
David Mathog
mathog at seqaxp.bio.caltech.edu
Manager, sequence analysis facility, biology division, Caltech
