On 10/1/07, marina@surferz.net <marina@surferz.net> wrote:
On Mon, 1 Oct 2007, Enrico Weigelt wrote:
> * app <porttikivi@gmail.com
> wrote:
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> 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
>
Why not start with something a bit smaller. ...like making SSH2 work. We
use plan9 for work a lot and not having SSH2 working is a large hassle.
I just asked about this the other day... Wondering where it is :-)
I'm not sure what's left to be done to make it go...
Might even throw some money in the pot for someone to finish that project
as the crypto application is a bit beyond me.
I think bounties for Open Source projects are neat, until someone decides not to maintain it :-)
However, they can sometimes get the ball rolling in a way that lets novices help with maintenance after the "experts" have moved on.
Dave
--- Marina Brown (tsygry)
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