Re: here i come !

[Miles Lane <miles megapathdsl net>]

On Tue, 2002-06-25 at 10:29, Bastien Nocera wrote:
> On Tue, 2002-06-25 at 18:16, Miles Lane wrote:
> > On Tue, 2002-06-25 at 10:07, Bastien Nocera wrote:
> > > On Tue, 2002-06-25 at 16:19, Karl Trygve Kalleberg wrote:
> > > > 
> > > > 
> > > > On 24 Jun 2002, Bastien Nocera wrote:
> > > > 
> > > > > User-defined sharing is hard, but most people need something simple :) 
> > > > > Just share ~/Public (everything but http) and ~/Sites (http) and some
> > > > > system-wide share akin (/System/Sites and /System/Public or some such),
> > > > > and you're done. 
> > > > 
> > > > Are these paths "virtual" and handled by GNOME VFS ? If not, are we going
> > > > to create a new system directory hierarchy ?
> > > > 
> > > > If we do, I fear we may as well scrap the idea of using any packages
> > > > verbatim from Debian, RedHat or whatnot :)
> > > 
> > > It was just an example. We'd probably put that under a /home/system or
> > > something like that.
> > 
> > Does it make sense to set up an HTTP server for gnome-os?
> > I highly doubt it, since most home users (and certainly laptop
> > users) do not have static IP addresses, let alone DNS 
> > registrations.
> 
> And ? Local networks are common, even for home users, and laptop users
> would probably like to be able to preview their websites before
> uploading it.

Common?  Like maybe 1%?

I guess I can see the web page preview thing, although I always
just use file:///<filename>.

On the other hand, for probably 95% of our users (if we are
targeting MS customers), this would be an unused feature.

	Miles