Date: Sat, 11 Jan 1997 18:16:52 +1030 (CST) From: Michael Smith <msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au> To: jkh@time.cdrom.com (Jordan K. Hubbard) Cc: msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au, config@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Config Manifesto comments? Message-ID: <199701110746.SAA07634@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au> In-Reply-To: <6152.852889444@time.cdrom.com> from "Jordan K. Hubbard" at "Jan 10, 97 01:44:04 am"
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I'll reply to this in more detail later, as I have a few domestic problems to deal with first (does "local redback plague" mean anything to you?), but in the hope that I catch you before it's too late... Jordan K. Hubbard stands accused of saying: > HTML, the response was "yeah, we know, but face it - there's a GUI > standard now, the HTML browser is it, end of story. Learn to live > with it, warts and all, OK?" I disagree. Violently. I'll accept that a GUI may be mandatory (I know that others will puke here), but HTML does _not_ cut the mustard in any sense of the word. Java? Maybe; I doubt you'll find me using it in the short term, but I suspect we can find someone with some spare brainspace. > How that effects the romeo/juliette abstraction I'm not sure, exactly, Well, IMHO it means that BSDI have to extract whatever squeaking object is blocking whichever orifice that has prevented them from having Netscape support plugins on the BSD/OS versions to date. Or we try to find a kindly soul at Netscape that will contract someone to build a FreeBSD version of Netscape. Hell, I'd do it. > setup tool. I guess that means that Juliette is safe. :-) Romeo might > need an HTML hair transplant, but I need to go back and read the spec > in more detail before I respond. This is on my post-conference TODO > list so please don't despair, Mike! :-) Basically, it means that the text-mode UI is toast, and Romeo becomes Tcl Plugin/Java code. Sorry Jan. It also means that you won't be able to run the configuration client on anything less than a P100 with 32M, courtesy of Bloatscape. > Jordan -- ]] Mike Smith, Software Engineer msmith@gsoft.com.au [[ ]] Genesis Software genesis@gsoft.com.au [[ ]] High-speed data acquisition and (GSM mobile) 0411-222-496 [[ ]] realtime instrument control. (ph) +61-8-8267-3493 [[ ]] Unix hardware collector. "Where are your PEZ?" The Tick [[
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