From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed Apr 28 11:22:59 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from mail2.atl.bellsouth.net (mail2.atl.bellsouth.net [205.152.0.22]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 27B991557B for ; Wed, 28 Apr 1999 11:22:55 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from wghicks@bellsouth.net) Received: from wghicks.bellsouth.net (host-209-214-69-179.atl.bellsouth.net [209.214.69.179]) by mail2.atl.bellsouth.net (8.8.8-spamdog/8.8.5) with ESMTP id OAA03839; Wed, 28 Apr 1999 14:22:51 -0400 (EDT) Received: from wghicks (wghicks@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by wghicks.bellsouth.net (8.9.3/8.9.2) with ESMTP id OAA93307; Wed, 28 Apr 1999 14:23:46 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from wghicks@wghicks.bellsouth.net) Message-Id: <199904281823.OAA93307@bellsouth.net> To: Alfred Perlstein Cc: Warner Losh , John Birrell , hackers@FreeBSD.ORG, wghicks@wghicks.bellsouth.net Subject: Re: Adding desktop support (please don't) In-reply-to: Your message of "Wed, 28 Apr 1999 13:22:50 CDT." Date: Wed, 28 Apr 1999 14:23:46 -0400 From: W Gerald Hicks Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > Also note that all userland programs (with the exception of dosemu) > are command line driven. Running them by clicking on them in X will > most likely do nothing. This doesn't belong in the base system, > instead it's a standard should be proposed to the GNOME, KDE and other > windowing systems people. A resource fork can be useful to help application developers targeting multiple OS's. Each OS seems to have its own special rules about where supplemental static data should be stored. Often a vendor will shrug the burden and offer support for only one or two OS's. Having a resource fork within executable images might help make multiple target support more manageable for ISV types. It would not be an error to have a null resource fork... The concept isn't necessarily limited to GUI applications and has been successfully used by OS/2, Macs and Windows among others. I'm not aware of anything similar for any Unix but ELF seems to open the door for interesting possibilities there too. Cheers, Jerry Hicks wghicks@bellsouth.net To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message