Date: Tue, 3 Mar 1998 00:09:57 -0300 (EST) From: Joao Carlos Mendes Luis <jonny@coppe.ufrj.br> To: john@loverso.southborough.ma.us (John Robert LoVerso) Cc: davidg@autodebit.com, freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: A new cd player program for FreeBSD Message-ID: <199803030309.AAA05132@gaia.coppe.ufrj.br> In-Reply-To: <199803030237.VAA16463@loverso.southborough.ma.us> from John Robert LoVerso at "Mar 2, 98 09:37:37 pm"
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#define quoting(John Robert LoVerso) // Where as your program looks nice, why is there a proliferation of // "Linux-only" or "FreeBSD-only" applications? Does "WMRack" contain // code that makes it impossible for it to work on other operating // systems? Does your cd play have the same nod towards FreeBSD? // Have people forgotten about "porting" and "portable software"? Taken from WMRack page: "Caution: Only tested under Linux! Send bug-reports including full description to Oliver Graf. Patchs for different systems are welcome." David, do you consider your program new from scratch or could it be a "port" ? Why not send the patchs to work with FreeBSD to the original WMRack author, and also making a port to the FreeBSD ports tree ? Please David, note that I'm not underconsidering your work, but you said it was based on WMRack, so why just copy instead of working together, specially when the author is willing to do that ? I agree with John about Linux-Only applications, but making them FreeBSD-only is not the solution. Let's make them Unix-wide. Jonny -- Joao Carlos Mendes Luis jonny@gta.ufrj.br +55 21 290-4698 jonny@coppe.ufrj.br Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro UFRJ/COPPE/CISI PGP fingerprint: 29 C0 50 B9 B6 3E 58 F2 83 5F E3 26 BF 0F EA 67 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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