From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Date: Mon, 1 Oct 2007 17:26:02 +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: <20071001152600.GB3832@nibiru.local> References: <1190553102.693814.317030@y42g2000hsy.googlegroups.com> <1191144354.638906.73590@g4g2000hsf.googlegroups.com> <4700DCC7.5070108@gmx.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <4700DCC7.5070108@gmx.de> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.1i Topicbox-Message-UUID: c951e222-ead2-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 * Kernel Panic 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 -- --------------------------------------------------------------------- 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/ ---------------------------------------------------------------------