From: Enrico Weigelt <weigelt@metux.de>
To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@cse.psu.edu>
Subject: Re: [9fans] Re: X Window System
Date: Mon, 1 Oct 2007 17:26:02 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20071001152600.GB3832@nibiru.local> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4700DCC7.5070108@gmx.de>
* Kernel Panic <cinap_lenrek@gmx.de> wrote:
> app wrote:
>
> >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?
> >
> >
> Go! look at these 100 best known programs... Look at the code and the
> dependencies... its not that easy/beauty.
Yeah, the autoconf "philosohpy" is probably what it makes so bad.
People seem to think it's better to workaround bugs or even bad design
and no one feels responsible to clean up things in the right place.
cu
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-10-01 15:26 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 26+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-09-24 9:14 [9fans] " pavlovetsky
2007-09-24 10:11 ` Lorenzo Fernando Bivens de la Fuente
2007-09-24 10:31 ` tlaronde
2007-09-24 11:43 ` [9fans] " pavlovetsky
2007-09-24 12:18 ` Steve Simon
2007-10-01 10:12 ` app
2007-10-01 11:40 ` Kernel Panic
2007-10-01 12:13 ` lucio
2007-10-01 13:04 ` erik quanstrom
2007-10-01 13:24 ` Charles Forsyth
2007-10-01 13:38 ` David Leimbach
2007-10-01 15:26 ` Enrico Weigelt [this message]
2007-10-01 15:23 ` Enrico Weigelt
2007-10-01 15:53 ` erik quanstrom
2007-10-01 16:44 ` ron minnich
2007-10-02 8:35 ` Douglas A. Gwyn
2007-10-01 17:24 ` marina
2007-10-01 17:47 ` andrey mirtchovski
2007-10-01 17:56 ` David Leimbach
2007-10-01 17:58 ` andrey mirtchovski
2007-10-01 18:01 ` David Leimbach
2007-10-01 18:09 ` ron minnich
2007-10-01 18:19 ` andrey mirtchovski
2007-10-01 18:31 ` Skip Tavakkolian
2007-10-01 19:32 ` marina
2007-10-01 17:55 ` David Leimbach
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