[130] in Athena User Interface
Re: RFC: Prioritized AUI component list
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Karl Ramm)
Tue Jun 6 18:07:36 2000
To: Richard Tibbetts <tibbetts@MIT.EDU>
Cc: tb@MIT.EDU (Thomas Bushnell, BSG), Maciej Stachowiak <mjs@eazel.com>,
BSG@MIT.EDU, Bill Cattey <wdc@MIT.EDU>,
"Christopher D. Beland" <beland@MIT.EDU>, Brad Thompson <yak@MIT.EDU>,
aui@MIT.EDU, tibbetts@MIT.EDU
From: Karl Ramm <kcr@1ts.org>
Date: 06 Jun 2000 18:07:24 -0400
In-Reply-To: Richard Tibbetts's message of "Tue, 06 Jun 2000 15:41:30 -0400"
Message-Id: <uus8zwia2g3.fsf@ORTHANC.MIT.EDU>
Richard Tibbetts <tibbetts@MIT.EDU> writes:
> On 6/6 tb@MIT.EDU (Thomas Bushnell, BSG) wrote:
> > (Incidentally, as for AFS,
> > don't assume that the existence of /afs means that the system is
> > running AFS and don't use avoid-AFS-lossage behavior on non-AFS files
> > [shell utils got both of these wrong]).
>
> As a resident free software geek, what is your suggestion for how to
> deal with AFS from GPL'd code? I would prefer not to include ARLA
> libraries in the Athena release. Do you have a better suggestion?
>
> tibbetts
>
> -*- http://www.mit.edu/~tibbetts -*- finger tibbetts@monk.mit.edu -*-
Having the arla libraries for pioctl, etc., would be a *much* better
solution for most of our home-grown programs that need to do things like
destroy tokens, etc. than linking in 15 terabytes of static AFS libraries.
kcr
