Re: gnome win32

[Sergio <ser perio unlp edu ar>]

raster@redhat.com el día Tue, 15 Sep 1998 14:36:11 -0400 (EDT), escribió:



I couldn't have said it better !   :-)




>On 15 Sep, David Alan Gilbert shouted:
>->  jmartins@nutec.com.br wrote:
>->  > 
>->  > Hei,
>->  > There are very interesting things to do to Linux,  please don't lost 
your
>->  > time to port gnome to win32.
>->  > Please lost your time develop to Linux gnome!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
>->  
>->  While I definitly agree, there are at least two benefits two having a 
Win32
>->  port:
>->  
>->    1) You can use Gnome on machines at work etc if you can't install 
Linux on
>->       them; and then continue using the same environment at home.
>->  
>->    2) Free software under windows can be used as the first place to pull 
users
>->       into free software; once they realise free software is good they 
won't
>->       be scared about going to a free OS.
>
>Well have fun guys doign stuff like porting imlib and stuff to win32
>cause imlib is unix-centric design and  I don't feel like wasting my
>time helping anyone port it to win32 - cause gnome needs it to create
>icons and do image stuff...
>
>basically it will be a complete waste of time that could be much more
>usefully spent working on gnome and imporving it becuase linux is goign
>to hit your desktop sonner than anyone probabyl has ever thought it
>could - companies are taking linux seriously these days.
>
>please do something usefulk and work on improving gnome and gtk and
>apps etc instead of just adding lots of #ifdef __WIN32's to the code.
>
>->  Dave
>->  
>->  
>
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