Date: Fri, 24 Sep 1999 17:45:41 -0600 From: Nate Williams <nate@mt.sri.com> To: Wes Peters <wes@softweyr.com> Cc: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@zippy.cdrom.com>, Jaakko Salomaa <jsalomaa@saunalahti.fi>, "Daniel C. Sobral" <dcs@newsguy.com>, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: A new package fetching utility, pkg_get Message-ID: <199909242345.RAA00200@mt.sri.com> In-Reply-To: <37EC05EC.757D92E4@softweyr.com> References: <6575.938200554@localhost> <37EC05EC.757D92E4@softweyr.com>
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> > 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
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