Date: Wed, 17 Sep 2003 15:48:22 -0700 From: Johnson David <DavidJohnson@Siemens.com> To: Michal Pasternak <michal@pasternak.w.lub.pl> Cc: freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Desktop FreeBSD Message-ID: <200309171548.22742.DavidJohnson@Siemens.com> In-Reply-To: <20030917212259.GA12266@pasternak.w.lub.pl> References: <20030917160654.52ceb56c.kitbsdlist2@HotPOP.com> <20030917212259.GA12266@pasternak.w.lub.pl>
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On Wednesday 17 September 2003 02:23 pm, Michal Pasternak wrote: > Just port it from Debian... and tell ports maintainers to update > their files. You need to have such "update-menu" description file - > and you need to know, which package is a windowmanager, to also > generate configuration for it. The Debian way is nice, but we already have some pieces of our own that we should work with. I would say use Debian as inspiration and a source of ideas, but still do it our own way. The more you have to tell port maintainers what to do, the more difficult it will be to get buy-in. So definitely get a prototype of something working first. It's an easier sell that way. > Python seems a correct language to code such task in. Network > infrastructure would be powered by Twisted Python > (www.twistedmatrix.com), GUI would be done via py-gtk2. Stuff to be hashed out. Personally I think C/C++ is the best to code this in. And if I had to go with an interpreted language, I would probably pick Ruby. See how contentious this stuff gets! David
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