From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Date: Mon, 1 Oct 2007 13:24:01 -0400 From: marina@surferz.net To: Enrico Weigelt Subject: Re: [9fans] Re: X Window System In-Reply-To: <20071001152313.GA3832@nibiru.local> Message-ID: References: <1190553102.693814.317030@y42g2000hsy.googlegroups.com> <1191144354.638906.73590@g4g2000hsf.googlegroups.com> <20071001152313.GA3832@nibiru.local> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed Cc: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@cse.psu.edu> Topicbox-Message-UUID: c9714572-ead2-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 On Mon, 1 Oct 2007, Enrico Weigelt wrote: > * 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 > 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. Might even throw some money in the pot for someone to finish that project as the crypto application is a bit beyond me. --- Marina Brown (tsygry) > > 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/ > --------------------------------------------------------------------- >