Date: Tue, 27 Jun 1995 01:55:53 -0700 From: asami@cs.berkeley.edu (Satoshi Asami) To: mmead@Glock.COM Cc: ports@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: gm4 & fvwm Message-ID: <199506270855.BAA01428@silvia.HIP.Berkeley.EDU> In-Reply-To: <199506270509.BAA05510@Glock.COM> (mmead@Glock.COM)
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* Since fvwm is built with m4 support, and the BSD m4 contains * considerably less functionality than the gnu m4, how about making fvwm * depend on gnu m4 and then make it exec that at startup instead of m4? Actually, this applies to most of the *wm's in /usr/ports/x11 (AFAIK, ctwm, tvtwm and piewm all use m4, what about olvwm?). I think this is a good extension than can be very useful, with a relatively small one-time cost (fetching & compiling of gm4) for the user, although it may be overkill for some of the non-power users. Although I use ctwm, I'm no m4 or gm4 hacker and don't really have a strong opinion one way or the other. I certainly won't mind if my ctwm automatically pulled in gm4, though -- I'll probably use it some day anyway. :) What do other people think? If nobody objects, we can split forces and go wm-hacking. Oh, and one thing...I assume gm4 is upward-compatible to BSD m4, right? Satoshi
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