Date: Tue, 27 Jun 1995 12:20:36 -0400 From: "matthew c. mead" <mmead@Glock.COM> To: Chuck Robey <chuckr@Glue.umd.edu> Cc: Satoshi Asami <asami@cs.berkeley.edu>, ports@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: gm4 & fvwm Message-ID: <199506271620.MAA10602@Glock.COM> In-Reply-To: Your message of Tue, June 27, 1995 10:53:11 -0400 References: <199506270855.BAA01428@silvia.HIP.Berkeley.EDU> <Pine.SUN.3.91.950627105202.3634E-100000@cappuccino.eng.umd.edu>
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On Tue, June 27, 1995 at 10:53:11 (-0400), Chuck Robey wrote:
> On Tue, 27 Jun 1995, Satoshi Asami wrote:
> > * Since fvwm is built with m4 support, and the BSD m4 contains
> > * considerably less functionality than the gnu m4, how about making fvwm
> > * depend on gnu m4 and then make it exec that at startup instead of m4?
> > Actually, this applies to most of the *wm's in /usr/ports/x11 (AFAIK,
> > ctwm, tvtwm and piewm all use m4, what about olvwm?). I think this is
> > a good extension than can be very useful, with a relatively small
> > one-time cost (fetching & compiling of gm4) for the user, although it
> > may be overkill for some of the non-power users.
> > Although I use ctwm, I'm no m4 or gm4 hacker and don't really have a
> > strong opinion one way or the other. I certainly won't mind if my
> > ctwm automatically pulled in gm4, though -- I'll probably use it some
> > day anyway. :)
> > What do other people think? If nobody objects, we can split forces
> > and go wm-hacking.
> > Oh, and one thing...I assume gm4 is upward-compatible to BSD m4, right?
> They all compile using the bsd m4, I've tried, so even if the gnu m4 is
> better, just what does using it get you?
Well, it has certain functionality that's a lot more suitable to
the types of things people (at least I) want to do. For instance, you can
use a program to get the display number, and call that from within an
esyscmd macro in gm4, but m4 doesn't have this. There are other things as
well - that example just came to mind.
-matt
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