Date: Wed, 10 May 1995 02:46:35 +0800 (CST) From: Brian Tao <taob@gate.sinica.edu.tw> To: Satoshi Asami <asami@CS.Berkeley.EDU> Cc: freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Statically-linked Motif binaries suck Message-ID: <Pine.BSI.3.91.950509234215.1566D-100000@aries.ibms.sinica.edu.tw> In-Reply-To: <199505090930.CAA28194@silvia.HIP.Berkeley.EDU>
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On Tue, 9 May 1995, Satoshi Asami | =?ISO-2022-JP?B?GyRCQHUbKEI=?= =?ISO-2022-JP?B?GyRCOCsbKEIgGyRCOC0bKEI=?= wrote:
>
> I think so too. I even converted a program I wrote (kp, joining the
> ports collection soon) from Motif to Tcl/Tk. :)
Feel like converting over other people's programs? :)
> By the way, I think we should think of a way of integrating this to
> the current ports framework, we can't let Brian do all the work.
Well, lemme figure out how to *make* a proper port first, then you
can go and change it all on me. :)
> What do people think? These are off the top of my head, please feel
> free to comment. We'll need to decide what to do with these real soon
> though (i.e., before 2.0.5 -- we can put these on the CD, right?).
My impression is that a lot of the really nice "productivity"
applications (databases, rolodexes, day planners/calendars, text
editors) are built with Motif. Definitely Joe Home User will find
useful. Hackers will probably prefer stuff like mgdiff or ddd. :)
With the size of the static binaries, we are going to *need* a CD-ROM
to distribute the stuff. :-/
--
Brian ("Though this be madness, yet there is method in't") Tao
taob@gate.sinica.edu.tw <-- work ........ play --> taob@io.org
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