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- From: atkinson@itd.nrl.navy.mil (Randall Atkinson)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.hp
- Subject: Re: Using Imake WITHOUT the mit Source Tree
- Message-ID: <3549@ra.nrl.navy.mil>
- Date: 9 Sep 92 16:51:21 GMT
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- In article <HARDY.92Sep9062355@golem.ps.uci.edu> hardy@golem.ps.uci.edu (Meinhard E. Mayer (Hardy)) writes:
-
- >And while I am on the subject: PLEASE INCLUDE AN UNSUPPORTED
- >HUGE UNOFFICIAL EMACS (PREFERABLY 19) WITH HP-UX 9.0. Darryl Okahata,
- >Andy Norman and others at HP have produced one of the most useful
- >Emacses and in day and age I can't imagine a workstation without it.
- >Even NeXT comes with Emacs and TeX installed!
-
- Actually, I care A Lot Less about whether HP "officially supports"
- Imake and the Athena X libraries and the GNU stuff (e.g. GNU Emacs)
- than whether they SHIP IT WITH STANDARD HP-UX. I have better things
- to do with my time than ftp the X11 stuff from export.lcs.mit.edu and
- the GNU stuff from prep.ai.mit.edu and build it locally. The whole
- reason I buy HP-UX is to get HP to build it and package it FOR ME.
-
- As far as I'm concerned, HP could put it all under /usr/contrib and
- the HP lawyer types (which seem to have run completely amok) can add
- suitable disclaimers about the stuff under /usr/contrib not being
- supported --- AS LONG AS THE STUFF WORKS. If HP Corvallis can build
- it and supply it to the net, there is no reason that the HP-UX folks
- can't just distribute it and be A Good Vendor.
-
- If HP doesn't fix these simple problems with HP-UX 9.x, then HP is
- really dumb and will have a harder and harder time selling boxes, IMNVHO.
-
- DISCLAIMER: Opinions expressed are the author's, not his employer's.
-