From owner-freebsd-hackers Sun Jun 21 15:54:32 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id PAA18987 for freebsd-hackers-outgoing; Sun, 21 Jun 1998 15:54:32 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from antipodes.cdrom.com (castles145.castles.com [208.214.165.145]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id PAA18879; Sun, 21 Jun 1998 15:54:14 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mike@antipodes.cdrom.com) Received: from antipodes.cdrom.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by antipodes.cdrom.com (8.8.8/8.8.5) with ESMTP id OAA01744; Sun, 21 Jun 1998 14:49:16 -0700 (PDT) Message-Id: <199806212149.OAA01744@antipodes.cdrom.com> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.0zeta 7/24/97 To: sos@FreeBSD.ORG cc: mike@smith.net.au (Mike Smith), rhh@ct.picker.com, nirva@ishiboo.com, yokota@zodiac.mech.utsunomiya-u.ac.jp, hasty@rah.star-gate.com, multimedia@FreeBSD.ORG, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: X-10 Mouse Remote patch In-reply-to: Your message of "Mon, 22 Jun 1998 00:32:28 +0200." <199806212232.AAA01045@sos.freebsd.dk> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Date: Sun, 21 Jun 1998 14:49:16 -0700 From: Mike Smith Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-MIME-Autoconverted: from quoted-printable to 8bit by hub.freebsd.org id PAA18915 Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > In reply to Mike Smith who wrote: > > I did actually propose to Randall the implementation of a stackable > > 'interception' layer, again to be managed by moused, however with only > > one device (so far) in this particular circumstance, it didn't seem > > worth the effort. > > No but it would have been the right thing, now we have to defend moused > against every crude hack that comes along, because of precedence :( That's my job, and I'm fully cognizant of that. > It wouldn't have been THAT hard to do it right to begin with. I tried; ask Randall. Given the alternatives (insist on purity and get nothing or accept what we're given for now and push for better later), I felt that something was better than nothing. -- \\ Sometimes you're ahead, \\ Mike Smith \\ sometimes you're behind. \\ mike@smith.net.au \\ The race is long, and in the \\ msmith@freebsd.org \\ end it's only with yourself. \\ msmith@cdrom.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message