Forwarded for Jochen until the email problem is solved.
Bruce
Date: Mon, 18 Mar 2002 14:44:24 +0100
From: Jochen Merz [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Organization: Jochen Merz Shareware (J-M-S)
Hi Wolfgang,
The idea was that the people involved would meet at Eindhoven
next weekend and discuss matters, to see what can be done.
I guess as you, Wolfgang, got everything going, we will meet
you there too, won't we? ;-)
Not sure. I'm having a dinner planned for that evening. I'll see what I
can do...
OK.
The future status of SMSQ/E can be discussed there and a
sensible decision can be made. And if SMSQ/E will become
open source, we do have to find a reliable registrar, that's
right.
We can also discuss it here!
We can, yes - although Tony suggested to do it at Eindhoven,
and he will call you during the week about this issue.
The status of QPC, for example, won't change at all.
Why not?
Because nobody will be able to do what Marcel has done,
I believe. SMSQ/E is part of it, yes, but who is going
to re-invent the wheel? I think it would take a lot of
work to get something close to QPC, and ... most important,
that would be wasted resources, wouldn't it?
Personally, I think the important thing is that we have a coherent
OS for ALL of the machines it runs on.! I wouldn't like a situation
where QPC, or Q60, or Aurora or whatever has OS features that
the others don't have. For me, the strength of the OS is that it is
the SAME (hardware permitting) on all machines. If that is no
longer the truth, I'll probably loose interest.
Yes, I fully agree, and IF we ever want to get applications which
benefit of SMSQ/E then we definitely need to go the same route
on all systems.
I really hope that things get going faster again, and my
feeling is that the modification which Marcel will do to
the Window Manager as described some days ago may help getting
more improvements than whether having an open source SMSQ/E or
not. It's the drivers and applications, which are much more
important!!
Yes, but how much of the screen drivers (for example) is peculiar
to each machine, and how much isn't? If one re-wrote the screen
P.E screen driver traps and vectors, wouldn't all machines profit
from this? And how would yu do that without the sources?
Tony said he sent the sources to various people which showed
interest, but nothing has happened at all.
But let's meet at Eindhoven next weekend and see what kind of
reasonable solution can be found for SMSQ.
The emphasis being on reasonable, I hope!
*I* surely don't need an unreasonable solution ;-)
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