[4625] in SIPB bug reports
Re: Mosaic script
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (yandros@MIT.EDU)
Thu Jun 16 16:03:19 1994
From: yandros@MIT.EDU
Date: Thu, 16 Jun 94 16:02:46 EDT
To: jfc@MIT.EDU
Cc: bug-sipb@MIT.EDU, bug-outland@MIT.EDU, sipb-gnu@MIT.EDU
In-Reply-To: <9406161821.AA07402@e51-007-6.MIT.EDU> (message from John Carr on Thu, 16 Jun 94 14:21:38 EDT)
> 3. it depends on outland and graphics and mime, yes. No good way
> around that right now.
I thought the point of the outland locker was to have a place to put
unsupported, unmaintained, or unreliable programs, and that if a mutant
ferrite-eating bacteria came along and ate the disk sectors outland was
stored on nobody would care. If the sipb locker doesn't work right
without the outland locker this is a real problem and the programs
Mosaic needs should be moved to sipb.
I agree, but I haven't had a chance to look into moving ghostview/gs
into sipb yet, and there are other issues involved (such as moving gnu
programs out of outland into a place that we could call supported).
Personally, I'm torn betwen keeping gnu stuff either in sipb or
outland (moving more stuff from outland to sipb) and making a separate
gnu locker (perhaps replacing the existing garbage - try ``ls -al
~gnu/sun4bin/bash'' sometime).
If there's not a better place for it soon, I intend to put
gs/ghostview and gtar into the sipb locker sometime in the future; I'm
ambivalent about gmake and gxargs and ggrep and a few others, and not
ambivalent about gwho and gyes.
Comments? I'd like to hear a little banter and then open the
conversation up to a wider audience.
chad
