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- Subject: Re: MiNT TO UNIX
- Date: Thu, 20 Jan 94 21:16:28 CET
- From: Juergen Lock <nox@jelal.north.de>
- In-Reply-To: <199401180757.AA09360@avignon.daimi.aau.dk>; from "Christian Lynbech" at Jan 18, 94 8:57 am
- Message-Id: <9401202016.AA00190@jelal.north.de>
-
- Christian Lynbech writes:
-
- > No, but given the size of the standard atari B/W monitor, the text
- > screen isn't that bad. ...
-
- and given the current performance of GEM... :) but thats what virtual
- consoles are for, then you can use GEM and still have fast text screens.
- (next update coming soon...)
-
- > Chris also writes:
- > > > [...stuff about i) fs standards or ii) making porting/configuring easy...]
- > > Definitely the second option, but I'd certainly settle for #1 in the
- > > mean-time. :-)
- >
- > I do not see a contradiction here.
-
- what i ment is when we can assume that ii) everyone has got a working
- compiler etc. like on unix then we would not have to hack together
- binary distributions for packages like Cnews that were never ment to be
- installed from binaries. i.e. it would save work for the people doing
- the ports and noone would be stuck with other peoples configuration
- options because they are compiled into the binaries... (and these are
- not just paths and directories.)
-
- > For one, a decent bourne shell and
- > a fully working test program, lets you configure most GNU software
- > pretty easy, already now.
-
- exactly.
-
- > But some fs standard would give additional
- > benefits:
- >
- > 1) Less need of patching.
- > Adding some environment variable requirement, probably means that you
- > still need to patch even GNU packages, and this is somewhat a pain,
- > when the next version of (say) the fileutils are out.
-
- yup. making every compile-time option an environment variable is
- not a good solution...
- >
- > 2) Not absolutely dependent on sources.
- > If you want a UNIX setup, you are pretty much required to have the
- > sources so you can configure to your specific setup. There is no
- > standard, so in theory you risk that one guy uploads the GNU diffutils
- > configured with all programs in /usr/local/bin and another guy uploads
- > RCS which expects diff to be A:\GNUBIN so that you just can't win.
- > This project is also a commitment to ensure that there are utilities
- > working within the standard (me thinks).
-
- agreed. for many things standardized search paths are enough to
- exchange binaries so we certainly should have them.
-
- cheers
- Juergen
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