From owner-freebsd-hackers Fri May 9 18:47:41 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id SAA10873 for hackers-outgoing; Fri, 9 May 1997 18:47:41 -0700 (PDT) Received: from rah.star-gate.com (rah.star-gate.com [204.188.121.18]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id SAA10868 for ; Fri, 9 May 1997 18:47:39 -0700 (PDT) Received: from rah.star-gate.com (localhost.star-gate.com [127.0.0.1]) by rah.star-gate.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id SAA10945; Fri, 9 May 1997 18:47:14 -0700 (PDT) Message-Id: <199705100147.SAA10945@rah.star-gate.com> X-Mailer: exmh version 1.6.9 8/22/96 To: Chuck Robey cc: Timothy Moore , freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: g++ shared library segfaults In-reply-to: Your message of "Fri, 09 May 1997 21:37:10 EDT." Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Fri, 09 May 1997 18:47:14 -0700 From: Amancio Hasty Sender: owner-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Thats fine Chuck your concerns are valid but not applicable. What I am looking for is for experienced programmers that can come in and do the "job" -- the job being defined as a cool document program. "doc" started out as an experiment to show that "Glyphs" or "flyweights" are feasible to use in an editor. We can take the same principle an do a document editor. Take Care, Amancio >From The Desk Of Chuck Robey : > On Fri, 9 May 1997, Amancio Hasty wrote: > > > Hi Chuck, > > > > Interview is not that huge well at least is less than 8MB. > > [Big listing deleted] > > Now go back and include the size of the sources. Do we have other > packages as big in FreeBSD, outside of our compiler? > > > > > For now "doc" is far more supported than our native document program. > > Yes, but James Clark still supports groff (though it's pretty stable). > There isn't any support at all for Interviews; they tell you at the ftp > site to go think about fresco! > > If we were going to move (and I don't think that's a bad idea, Amancio) > then we shouldn't move, on purpose, to a known orphan. My own idea would > be to move to a wysiwyg sgml type editor; and an outside formatter. > Webtk could be modified to do the editing, and Jade (James Clark's again) > would be a good formatter. > > Maybe, tho, I'm giving up some right to comment, because I can't do that > myself right now; I'd hate to find FreeBSD moving into a known blind alley. > > > > > I just want to stabilize "doc" as much as possible and then change it > > Perhaps the final version will not look at all like an Interviews program 8 ) > > Would it be feasible to ask a tool like doc to format using sgml tags? > If so, some of my objections would evaporate. Many more would go, if it > was changed to rely on one of the newer gui libraries. I'm not against > your general idea, you know ... > > > > > Anyone care to join in ? > > > > Regards, > > Amancio > > ----------------------------+----------------------------------------------- > Chuck Robey | Interests include any kind of voice or data > chuckr@eng.umd.edu | communications topic, C programming, and Unix. > 9120 Edmonston Ct #302 | > Greenbelt, MD 20770 | I run Journey2 and picnic, both FreeBSD > (301) 220-2114 | version 3.0 current -- and great FUN! > ----------------------------+----------------------------------------------- > >