On Wed, 29 Oct 2003, William Hooper wrote:

> Mike Miller said:
>
> > Most of the viewers are freely available and redistributable, right?
> > So why don't we just put all of the free GPL'd binaries somewhere so
> > that people can just grab them quickly when needed?  Then when I'm on
> > a Mac, say, I can just grab the binary and run it.
>
> Check out the recent thread about libstc++ and Linux.  I can't imagine
> things like Solaris, HP-UX, AIX, ad-nausium being much different in the
> respects of the executable being dependent on the installed libraries.

Do you mean that the Linux viewer will work on Solaris?  I don't care as
much about viewers for the Unixes because it's very rare that I'd be
viewing from, say, an AIX machine.


> As far as MacOS goes, there are other projects devoted to creating just
> Mac servers and viewers.

I know, but is it not possible to put the MacOS viewers along with other
viewers on a single location so that they are easily accessible?


> It is my experience the Java viewer for VNC 4 is just as good as a
> native viewer, because it has been re-written with the new encodings.

That's good news.  I didn't know that.  I'll install the new version and
see how it works out.

Thanks for your comments.

Mike
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