Date: Sun, 15 Jun 1997 18:00:24 -0700 From: Amancio Hasty <hasty@rah.star-gate.com> To: "Joel N. Weber II" <devnull@gnu.ai.mit.edu> Cc: chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Plugin? (Re: Complaining at Warner Brothers? ) Message-ID: <199706160100.SAA07008@rah.star-gate.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sun, 15 Jun 1997 20:27:15 EDT." <199706160027.UAA15280@ethanol.gnu.ai.mit.edu>
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Not sure that I understand your reluctance to support "plugin" technology. Plugins are useful from the perspective of not requiring the user to recompile the whole package. Amancio >From The Desk Of "Joel N. Weber II" : > Date: Sun, 15 Jun 1997 12:47:34 -0700 > From: Amancio Hasty <hasty@rah.star-gate.com> > > Does anyone out there know or have the source for a netscape plugin? > > Incidentally, don't think that you're going to get plugin functionality > in E-scape. The unavalibility of source for plugins makes me uninterested > in supporting them. However, I'll be happy to merge Shockwave and > RealAudio into the main E-scape sources if you can give me the source > and there are clearly no potential copyright or patent problems. > > (IMHO, plugins allow you to do some of the things you could do if > you actually had the source, in a way that requires more work for everyone.) > > Are there more than a half dozen plugins out there which > are truely useful? Is there anything other than Shockwave > and RealAudio that are really useful? >
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