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gEDA-user: X server support - was Feh!
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- Subject: gEDA-user: X server support - was Feh!
- From: Alex Perry <alex.perry@xxxxxxxx>
- Date: Mon, 28 Feb 2005 21:17:41 -0800 (PST)
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- In-reply-to: <200502282333.08488.marvindickens@bellsouth.net> "from Marvin Dickens at Feb 28, 2005 11:33:04 pm"
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> > The attitude that "all the world's a Linux box" the biggest reason
> > why a lot of today's free software is going into the crapper. If PCB
> > goes that way as well, it will be a damn shame.
> What system would you like to see PCB run on? Also, are you thinking
> that many users on other platforms will get lost in dependency hell (Which
> is absolutely possible)?
There seems to be a common attitude among casual Linux users that the
X server against on which an application is drawing is located on the
same system image as the one which is running the application process.
While convenient, such an assumption ensures that the application will
suffer from all the same deployment nightmares as a Windows-only app.
In consequence, it will be severely disadvantaged in commercial use.