Re: Proposal for simplification

[Leonard den Ottolander <leonard den ottolander nl>]

Hi Pavel,

On Wed, 2005-09-28 at 12:08 +0300, Pavel Tsekov wrote:
> On Tue, 27 Sep 2005, 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.
> 
> Most *nix variants have curses implementation. Why all of a sudden
> curses support should be dropped in favour of S-Lang ?

I think you are misreading proski. I think you should read "only S-Lang
2" as in contrast to both slang1 and slang2. I don't believe proski
proposes to drop curses support. He can correct me if I'm wrong.

However, I do not agree with that. The advantage of using an internal
version is that it is more easily patchable than the system library
itself.

Also I think we can stick with 2 internal versions for a while (a year?)
to let people get acquainted and comfortable with the new version
instead of forcing it upon them.

Leonard.

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