From owner-freebsd-ports Tue May 9 11:46:54 1995 Return-Path: ports-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) id LAA21983 for ports-outgoing; Tue, 9 May 1995 11:46:54 -0700 Received: from aries.ibms.sinica.edu.tw ([140.109.40.248]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) with ESMTP id LAA21975 for ; Tue, 9 May 1995 11:46:46 -0700 Received: (from taob@localhost) by aries.ibms.sinica.edu.tw (8.6.11/8.6.9) id CAA08874; Wed, 10 May 1995 02:46:36 +0800 Date: Wed, 10 May 1995 02:46:35 +0800 (CST) From: Brian Tao To: Satoshi Asami cc: freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Statically-linked Motif binaries suck In-Reply-To: <199505090930.CAA28194@silvia.HIP.Berkeley.EDU> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: ports-owner@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Tue, 9 May 1995, Satoshi Asami | =?ISO-2022-JP?B?GyRCQHUbKEI=?= =?ISO-2022-JP?B?GyRCOCsbKEIgGyRCOC0bKEI=?= wrote: > > I think so too. I even converted a program I wrote (kp, joining the > ports collection soon) from Motif to Tcl/Tk. :) Feel like converting over other people's programs? :) > By the way, I think we should think of a way of integrating this to > the current ports framework, we can't let Brian do all the work. Well, lemme figure out how to *make* a proper port first, then you can go and change it all on me. :) > What do people think? These are off the top of my head, please feel > free to comment. We'll need to decide what to do with these real soon > though (i.e., before 2.0.5 -- we can put these on the CD, right?). My impression is that a lot of the really nice "productivity" applications (databases, rolodexes, day planners/calendars, text editors) are built with Motif. Definitely Joe Home User will find useful. Hackers will probably prefer stuff like mgdiff or ddd. :) With the size of the static binaries, we are going to *need* a CD-ROM to distribute the stuff. :-/ -- Brian ("Though this be madness, yet there is method in't") Tao taob@gate.sinica.edu.tw <-- work ........ play --> taob@io.org