On Wed, 23 Feb 2000, Bernie wrote:
> IIRC I did start working on this, but you said that the author of lopif
> would do it himself. Now "all" (yeah right, like I got very far <g>) my
> work is gone. (I removed Red Hat completly and installed Slackware instead).
Well, he won't do that :( To be true, I think that SVGAlib interface is
cleaner than X_LOPIF, so it would be maybe beter to add rather
SVGAlib bindings to x_LOPIF than vice-versa ;-)
> >And finaly some very straightforward project: There is strong need for
> >porting INSIGHT.EXE to Linux.
>
> And this I also asked about if it was something that needed to be done.
Yes, but it was before I released my current version
> >BTW, I can't write Makefiles. I was thinking about using rhide or xwpe
> >for Arachne, but I feel like for future opening of Arachne's source code
> >may be important to join existing habbits.
>
> RHIDE is a great choice IMVHO. (I don't even know what xwpe is but the "x"
> doesn't look promising IMO).
There is both xwpe and wpe - console version. xwpe is really more usable
than rhide - I liked rhide, but there were several very annoying bugs
which prevented me from using it.
> >So if you can send me
> >Insight's .PRJ file rewritten to Makefile for GNU make, it would really
> >help me a lot...
>
> Ok, this one you asked me to do, but I still don't like to do it ;-)
This is why I am asking other people on this list ;) Well, my brother
explained me some Makefile basics, so maybe I will be able to do it on my
own.
> Please don't take me wrong, I understand that your oppinion has changed
> since both of the times I've voluntered to make work that you know need.
> It's just a little frustrating. I'll see what I can do about InSight (since
> I still haven't added the filtering I want).
Additionaly, someone has sent me some completely non-Insight filtering
code :-(
Full opensource developers really have situation easier in this respect,
this is true....
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