From owner-freebsd-hackers Fri Sep 24 16:46:48 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from ns.mt.sri.com (ns.mt.sri.com [206.127.79.91]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E4EBB15363 for ; Fri, 24 Sep 1999 16:46:45 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from nate@mt.sri.com) Received: from mt.sri.com (rocky.mt.sri.com [206.127.76.100]) by ns.mt.sri.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id RAA24127; Fri, 24 Sep 1999 17:45:42 -0600 (MDT) (envelope-from nate@rocky.mt.sri.com) Received: by mt.sri.com (SMI-8.6/SMI-SVR4) id RAA00200; Fri, 24 Sep 1999 17:45:41 -0600 Date: Fri, 24 Sep 1999 17:45:41 -0600 Message-Id: <199909242345.RAA00200@mt.sri.com> From: Nate Williams MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: Wes Peters Cc: "Jordan K. Hubbard" , Jaakko Salomaa , "Daniel C. Sobral" , hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: A new package fetching utility, pkg_get In-Reply-To: <37EC05EC.757D92E4@softweyr.com> References: <6575.938200554@localhost> <37EC05EC.757D92E4@softweyr.com> X-Mailer: VM 6.34 under 19.16 "Lille" XEmacs Lucid Reply-To: nate@mt.sri.com (Nate Williams) Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > > You bet! And we haven't even gotten to the topic of the interactive > > package selection menu yet! :-) > > Let alone the Java-based GUI. In all seriousness, given the stability of the JDK on FreeBSD *plus* the ability to ship a FreeBSD with the JRE legally (although we don't ship anything at this time that doesn't come with source), I think it would be easy to build a slick GUI for FreeBSD. Unfortunately, as with all 'slick' products we've talked about, it still requires a working X setup in order to run. You could do one as a CUI, but doing it in Java would be just as hard as anything else at this point. :( Nate To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message