From: Michael Powe <michael@trollope.org>
Subject: Re: New Emacs with GTK!
Date: 23 Mar 2003 20:01:23 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87llz58tng.fsf@cecilia.trollope.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 86adflzuv4.fsf@bigwalter.net
>>>>> "Daniel" == Daniel Jensen <daniel-news@bigwalter.net> writes:
Daniel> Michael Powe <michael@trollope.org> writes:
>> how many versions of unix include gtk libraries? i suspect the
>> answer is 'none,' but someone can apprise me if i'm wrong. i
>> know they are not on solaris 8, openbsd 2.7 or sunos 4.1
>> because i have those. i'd be very surprised if they were on
>> freebsd, just because they are gpl. therefore, restricting
>> emacs to gtk means restricting its use to linux users who use
>> gnome. not likely.
Daniel> Why wouldn't FreeBSD use GPL code? They use GCC, right?
Daniel> Doesn't OpenBSD do that too?
they do use some gpl (gcc, e.g.) but freebsd'ers are among the
principal proponents of the "gpl virus" theory. they isolate gpl in
their dev tree. they often can be found in gnu.misc.discuss flaming
rms.
Daniel> And FYI, GTK is not only for GNOME. It's a standard
Daniel> toolkit on GNU systems. Many non-GNOME programs use
Daniel> it. You obviously know this as you are using XFce, another
Daniel> GTK desktop environment.
Daniel> I don't argue that Emacs should be GTK only, but I do
Daniel> think that GTK is a great step forward for Emacs. It makes
Daniel> Emacs blend well together with the rest of the GNU
Daniel> desktop, and I think it will encourage more would-be users
Daniel> to try it out in the future.
yes, it's fine with me, i was more objecting to the tone of the OP,
who (along with some others) seems to think that the only user base
for emacs is composed of gnome/gtk users on linux. it seems that many
who broke away to form Xemacs also thought it would spell the end of
GNU emacs.
mp
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2003-03-19 20:26 ` New Emacs with GTK! kgold
2003-03-19 20:47 ` Peter Lee
2003-03-19 20:53 ` Alan Shutko
2003-03-20 5:57 ` Miles Bader
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2003-03-22 18:03 ` Michael Powe
2003-03-23 9:55 ` Niels Freimann
2003-03-23 16:08 ` Daniel R. Anderson
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2003-03-24 2:14 ` Jason Earl
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2003-03-23 11:18 ` Edward O'Connor
2003-03-23 12:00 ` Niels Freimann
2003-03-23 17:06 ` Alfred M. Szmidt
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2003-03-23 14:17 ` A. L. Meyers
2003-03-23 16:09 ` Niels Freimann
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2003-03-23 18:09 ` Hubert Chan
2003-03-23 22:01 ` Jason Rumney
2003-03-24 1:24 ` Michael Powe
2003-03-24 7:26 ` Miles Bader
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2003-03-25 0:11 ` Michael Powe
2003-03-25 0:57 ` Jesper Harder
2003-03-25 10:42 ` Kai Großjohann
2003-03-25 15:48 ` Sven Utcke
2003-03-25 16:16 ` François Fleuret
2003-04-18 4:05 ` David Combs
2003-04-18 7:18 ` Kai Großjohann
2003-04-19 20:00 ` Michael Powe
2003-04-19 20:01 ` Michael Powe
2003-04-18 4:13 ` David Combs
2003-04-18 9:55 ` Niels Freimann
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2003-04-18 11:06 ` Marco Parrone
2003-04-18 11:23 ` Kai Großjohann
2003-04-18 13:25 ` Niels Freimann
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2003-04-18 14:38 ` Alan Shutko
2003-04-18 14:43 ` Stefan Monnier
2003-04-18 15:31 ` Kai Großjohann
2003-03-23 15:56 ` Marco Parrone
2003-03-25 16:26 ` Per Abrahamsen
2003-03-30 6:00 ` Michael Powe
2003-03-31 20:36 ` John Russell
2003-03-31 20:52 ` David Kastrup
2003-03-31 21:14 ` John Russell
2003-03-31 21:20 ` David Kastrup
2003-03-31 22:39 ` John Russell
2003-03-31 21:01 ` Kai Großjohann
2003-03-31 22:04 ` David Kastrup
2003-04-01 12:27 ` Sven Utcke
2003-04-01 12:52 ` Kai Großjohann
2003-04-01 15:51 ` Sven Utcke
2003-04-01 16:21 ` Kai Großjohann
2003-04-01 13:49 ` David Kastrup
2003-04-01 16:29 ` Kai Großjohann
2003-04-02 1:59 ` Miles Bader
2003-04-01 17:19 ` Ole Laursen
2003-03-23 16:10 ` Michael Powe
2003-03-23 19:08 ` Alan Shutko
2003-03-24 0:46 ` Michael Powe
2003-03-24 2:17 ` Jason Earl
2003-03-24 23:52 ` Michael Powe
2003-03-25 15:58 ` Sven Utcke
2003-03-25 17:28 ` Daniel R. Anderson
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2003-03-26 7:27 ` Tim X
2003-03-26 10:49 ` Ed Cavazos
2003-03-26 16:08 ` Stefan Monnier
2003-04-01 12:23 ` Sven Utcke
2003-03-26 13:34 ` Garglemonster
2003-04-01 12:13 ` Sven Utcke
2003-03-23 20:33 ` Daniel Jensen
2003-03-24 1:01 ` Michael Powe [this message]
2003-03-24 13:42 ` Bijan Soleymani
2003-03-25 12:25 ` David Kastrup
2003-03-30 5:52 ` Michael Powe
2003-03-25 16:38 ` Per Abrahamsen
2003-03-25 16:07 ` Hallvard B Furuseth
2003-03-23 2:20 Nick Roberts
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2003-03-18 21:20 Hans Larsen
2003-03-04 8:56 New Emacs with GTK? Peter Wu
2003-03-04 9:50 ` David Kastrup
2003-03-04 13:27 ` Peter Wu
2003-03-12 7:16 ` Matthew Kennedy
2003-03-13 3:59 ` Peter Wu
2003-03-13 6:00 ` Ramakrishnan Muthukrishnan
2003-03-13 6:23 ` Peter Wu
2003-03-13 8:37 ` Ramakrishnan Muthukrishnan
2003-03-15 18:14 ` Peter Wu
2003-03-15 11:33 ` Marco Parrone
2003-03-13 7:58 ` Yongtao Yang
2003-03-13 8:30 ` Ramakrishnan Muthukrishnan
2003-03-13 16:04 ` Stefan Monnier
2003-03-13 8:38 ` Peter Wu
2003-03-13 10:58 ` David Kastrup
2003-03-14 2:56 ` Peter Wu
2003-03-14 10:10 ` Kai Großjohann
2003-03-15 17:52 ` Peter Wu
2003-03-15 11:56 ` Marco Parrone
2003-03-15 17:22 ` Stefan Monnier
2003-03-16 2:10 ` Peter Wu
2003-03-15 14:03 ` Marco Parrone
2003-03-19 3:54 ` Peter Wu
2003-03-16 2:34 ` Peter Wu
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