Re: Proposal for simplification

[Leonard den Ottolander <leonard den ottolander nl>]

Hi Pavel,

On Tue, 2005-09-27 at 16:42 -0400, Pavel Roskin wrote:
> 1) Support only S-Lang 2 and only as an external library.  Those who
> need mc will get S-Lang.  I know, this is pretty harsh, but the next
> release is probably months away, and S-Lang 2 will be ubiquitous by
> then.

Pretty harsh indeed. I don't believe slang2 will be widespread within a
few months. (If I did I wouldn't put the effort in getting an internal
version ;) .)

> 2) Drop support for non-VFS builds.  When we have reports that VFS was
> ported to Win32, there is no point to keep it optional.  VFS could also
> provide an intermediate layer for the local filesystem - that's
> something we cannot do when VFS is optional.

I've nothing against this, although I wonder how much effort it will
save to disable this option.

Leonard.

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