Date: Sun, 15 Jun 1997 23:23:51 -0400 From: "Joel N. Weber II" <devnull@gnu.ai.mit.edu> To: hasty@rah.star-gate.com Cc: chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Plugin? (Re: Complaining at Warner Brothers? ) Message-ID: <199706160323.XAA16075@ethanol.gnu.ai.mit.edu> In-Reply-To: <199706160208.TAA07633@rah.star-gate.com> (message from Amancio Hasty on Sun, 15 Jun 1997 19:08:06 -0700)
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Date: Sun, 15 Jun 1997 19:08:06 -0700 From: Amancio Hasty <hasty@rah.star-gate.com> Dump the GNU enviroment if it does not meet your needs. The GNU environment does meet *my* needs. Plugins are not one of *my* needs. Anyway, I don't think you really want me to have an attitude that I only care about the OSes that I personally happen to use. It happens that I don't use freebsd at all. I love the conversation on this list, but I happen to run Linux on my own machine, and I don't see that freebsd is likely to be substantially better than Linux. All the key software I need exists on any Unix system, or at least can be installed on any Unix system. I don't have a strong commitment to Linux. I'll happily switch to Hurd when it works well enough. But I want E-scape to work well for the entire free software community, regardless of which OS they happen to be running. Also I am not sure whats the big deal for writing an abstract interface to load up modules at run time. It can be done, but it takes extra effort to make it work on every platform. If there's a portable interface, I'd rather use that. GNU programs are generally supposed to work out of the box on every OS. It's a lot of admnistrative overhead for me if I have to keep support for every OS merged. Should I worry about BSDI or UnixWare? I don't care about those systems, but someone probably does. It would take time for me to merge someone else's patches. > Give me a handful of examples of plugins for which you expect that > the source will be distributed, and maybe I'll consider it. Hmm.. Look up the MIDIX plugin which uses timidy to playback midi files I lost my http pointer to it .. Isn't it easy enough to include code in E-scape which knows about timidy? Won't that solve the problem?
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