From owner-freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Sep 17 16:11:08 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DBEEF16A4B3 for ; Wed, 17 Sep 2003 16:11:08 -0700 (PDT) Received: from pr93.lublin.sdi.tpnet.pl (pr93.lublin.sdi.tpnet.pl [217.97.36.93]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id EEF3743FDD for ; Wed, 17 Sep 2003 16:11:06 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from michal@pasternak.w.lub.pl) Received: (qmail 8581 invoked by uid 1000); 17 Sep 2003 23:09:19 -0000 Date: Wed, 17 Sep 2003 23:09:19 +0000 From: Michal Pasternak To: Johnson David Message-ID: <20030917230919.GA8428@pasternak.w.lub.pl> Mail-Followup-To: Johnson David , Michal Pasternak , freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org References: <20030917160654.52ceb56c.kitbsdlist2@HotPOP.com> <20030917212259.GA12266@pasternak.w.lub.pl> <200309171548.22742.DavidJohnson@Siemens.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-2 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <200309171548.22742.DavidJohnson@Siemens.com> cc: freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org cc: Michal Pasternak Subject: Re: Desktop FreeBSD X-BeenThere: freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list Reply-To: Michal Pasternak List-Id: FreeBSD Evangelism List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 17 Sep 2003 23:11:09 -0000 Johnson David [Wed, Sep 17, 2003 at 03:48:22PM -0700]: > 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. For example? I am very, very interested. > I would say use Debian as inspiration and a source > of ideas, but still do it our own way. ... even if Debian's way is the one, right way to do that? That would be a little silly, don't you think? I am really, really interested how would you solve this problem. > The more you have to tell port maintainers what to do, the more > difficult it will be to get buy-in. Of course. That's why it is a hard task > So definitely get a prototype of > something working first. It's an easier sell that way. You _won't_ make it right basing on "prototypes". > > 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. Well, personally, I don't. -- Michal Pasternak :: http://pasternak.w.lub.pl Noise to meet you.