Jamin Collins wrote:
> One question, what then happens when a user of BB that did not include these
> then decides that they would like to use one of them? A recompile of BB
> just to add an app that could (and as we all know by now, in my opinion
> should) be an independent application? Or, are we now looking at the
> possibility of maintaining two distributions of each app, one in BB and one
> as a stand alone app? Neither of these (recompile or multiple
> distributions) seems like a good way to do things to me. I'm open to
> suggestions (contrary to the way it may appear), but I'm looking for good
> solid reasons that a change should be made.
Ideally:
The standalone app could be compiled into blackbox and make use of
blackbox resources, rather than reinventing the wheel.
Realistically:
The user will recompile. Also each user can have thier own version
of blackbox in thier home directories. I run my blackbox from
~/.blackbox directory, because I made code modifications and didn't want
to mess with anything. I know not everyone likes recompiling but if
there is a script (similar to the cpan script for Perl) that might ask
the user about which options they want, it would be easier in general
too. However, try compiling X or Mozilla sometime and then complain
about blackbox taking awhile.
Eric H.
