From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-ID: <40EA97DC.1090904@anvil.com> Date: Tue, 6 Jul 2004 13:15:24 +0100 From: Dave Lukes User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 0.7.1 (X11/20040626) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@cse.psu.edu> Subject: Re: [9fans] TODO lists for Plan 9 References: In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: lucio@proxima.alt.za Topicbox-Message-UUID: b65cbeb2-eacd-11e9-9e20-41e7f4b1d025 Steve, I suspect that, if the answer were as simple(?) as converting GTK to 9p or similar, someone would have leapt on it by now. In reality I suspect that if you tried to port OOO or some other monolithic megalith, you would almost certainly die the death of a thousand config-files, fonts, shared libraries, external dependencies etc. etc. etc. Cheers, DaveL. Steve Simon wrote: >If you where to undertake such a mammoth task, how about an >API mapping for GTK - thus we would get the Gallion browser >and (I think) open-office for free. > >And yes, I don't beleive either are beautifull pieces of >software, however they would be very usefull. > >-Steve > >