Re: Release Team's Almost-Final Modules List

[Ole Laursen <olau hardworking dk>]

Sander Vesik <Sander Vesik Sun COM> writes:

> > My[1] concern (and this is probably something that needs to go into GEP
> > 10) is not so much for 'does it run on FreeBSD' as ''can it run on
> > FreeBSD.' Joe, if it's your opinion that porting the current g-s-t
> > infrastructure will be difficult/very hard (once you've been able to
> > inspect it thoroughly), that's a huge strike against it. 
> > 
> 
> well, presently its much more 'gnome-linux-system-tools' than
> 'gnome-system-tools' that could be expected to work and be useful on a
> variety of (non-linux) systems. Its not just the matter of porting /
> writing new backend pieces. ultimately its design is backwards - instead
> of an GUI that adjust itself to what its present backend/system is capable
> of, it is a gui into which you can plug a new backend that needs to
> provide the gui with what it thingks will be there on the system.

But if you have to rewrite both the GUI and the backend then there's
no point in having any common ground, is there?

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Ole Laursen
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