Re: [Pan-users] What tells Pan where to save??

[Ima Afrotrap]

On Tue, 27 Nov 2012 19:45:34 +0000 (UTC)
Duncan <address@hidden> wrote:

> Heinrich Müller posted on Tue, 27 Nov 2012 18:07:32 +0100 as excerpted:
> 
> > Am 27.11.2012 05:52, schrieb Duncan:
> >> LOLed at your choice of example! =:^)
> >>> Being able to copy your config and use it with another account is a
> >>> good thing.
> >> I've wondered that before as well.  Heinrich, is that an easy change?
> >>
> > Yes, I think so, but atm I don't code for pan, I've got other work to
> > do. I'm planning to implement pan in java btw. But only after I've fixed
> > some bugs that are in the java version. I think I'll do that in the next
> > 2-3 weeks.
> 
> Ugh.  I hope I missed the sarcasm tags and that's a joke.  Or at least 
> that it'll be gcj buildable and not just runnable in a JVM.
> 
> I don't have java VM on my systems ATM as I seldom need it and in general 
> it's more problems than it's worth.  The build-once, run anywhere thing 
> just doesn't fit in a freedomwhere world, where it's simply a poor 
> proprietary workaround to the /normal/ freedomware-world portability case 
> of either the distro (for binary-based) or sysadmin (for source-based) 
> building to the specific platform in the first place (assuming sources 
> coded with portability in mind or later adapted for it), thus enabling 
> the proprietary vendor to disrespect the four software freedoms of his 
> users, to use, study, adapt and share the software sources as desired, by 
> shipping obfuscated bytecode instead of the portable sources that are the 
> normal portability solution in the freedomware world.
> 

  +1


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