Am Mon, May 22, 2000 at 10:11:52AM -0400 schrieb Cowboy: > > >> From: Marcus Brinkmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >> > >> On Sat, May 20, 2000 at 12:02:15AM +0100, Adam Sampson wrote: > >> > > >> > This is just one example; I'm sure there are plenty of other features in > >> > "forgotten" OSs which would be useful to us. So, essentially, my plea is > >> > that if you've got any information about interesting (or > >> > not-so-interesting) > >> > things in other OSs, then try to make it available to others to pick > >> > ideas > >> > from. > >> > >> Well, of course there are more facettes to it than just lack of ideas (or > >> "forgotten lore" :). Quite convincing arguments can be derived from the > >> amount of existing code base and developer knowledge. If you have a cool OS > >> but no software to run on it, and no developers who have the time to learn > >> doing things the new way, the success becomes less likely. > > Methinks this is crucial. > Something MUST be compatible with existing main-stream to obtain a > significant > degree of success in short order. Create a translator, e.g. config-files, that sits on the home directory of a user (if he installed it) and identifies files .foorc with ~/etc/foorc or something the user likes.
E.g. settrans ~ config-files --var=~/var --etc=~/etc or settrans ~ config-files --etc=~/.etc That's translators are invented for. -- Stefan Karrmann
