From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Date: Mon, 1 Oct 2007 17:23:13 +0200 From: Enrico Weigelt To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@cse.psu.edu> Subject: Re: [9fans] Re: X Window System Message-ID: <20071001152313.GA3832@nibiru.local> References: <1190553102.693814.317030@y42g2000hsy.googlegroups.com> <1191144354.638906.73590@g4g2000hsf.googlegroups.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1191144354.638906.73590@g4g2000hsf.googlegroups.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.1i Topicbox-Message-UUID: c935158e-ead2-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 * app wrote: Hi, > So, if not X, then how about some higher (or eperhaps lower?) layer > libraries (qtk? Qt? Gecko?) ported so that porting the 10 (or 100) > best known FOSS packages (whatever they are) would become more > possible? Porting libs like gdk to plan9 would be cool. But you shouldn't forget that many libs should be heavily restructured and cleaned up. > How about a project to take something like Firefox and restructure the > whole sw so that best modules would be kept and other modules re- > implemented /dev/draw way and Rio way? Huh, that's an really HUGE plan. I'm a little bit involved in moz and know what I'm talking about ;-O cu -- --------------------------------------------------------------------- Enrico Weigelt == metux IT service - http://www.metux.de/ --------------------------------------------------------------------- Please visit the OpenSource QM Taskforce: http://wiki.metux.de/public/OpenSource_QM_Taskforce Patches / Fixes for a lot dozens of packages in dozens of versions: http://patches.metux.de/ ---------------------------------------------------------------------