[FreeNX-kNX] FreeNX-kNX Digest, Vol 35, Issue 7

[dewey hylton]

> Date: Sat, 07 Jul 2007 09:45:43 +0200
> From: "Fabian Franz" <FabianFranz at gmx.de>
> Subject: [FreeNX-kNX] Release: FreeNX 0.7.0 "Jornade SPL Edition VI+1"
> 	+ QA:	The future
> 
> Hello,
> 
> greetings from Girona, Spain after a really nice night out. ;-)

<great news/ideas snipped>

> The goals of the new design are:
> 
> - flexible and customizable, so that new developers can join easily.
> - stable and not feature creep, so that features are not affecting the core
> functionality

i'd like to suggest another goal here - portability. 

the original freenx implementation was mostly linux-centric. thankfully, due to 
being written in bash and using mostly generic *nix tools, and me being a 
sysadmin, i was able to fairly easily port to freebsd. i've seen solaris ports 
as well, so obviously the original design wasn't exactly married to linux.

what worries me is the C code mentioned; if it happens to be linux-centric, i'll 
be sunk. i've not really received much help with porting of the nxlibs C code to 
freebsd, so i doubt i'll have much help with the freenx C code either.

having said that, i'm excited about where this appears to be going. kudos for 
all your great work up to this point, and good luck in the future. i'll 
certainly help however i am able, especially where it involves compatibility 
with freebsd.

--
Dewey Hylton / BugeyeD
http://www.deweyonline.com/freebsd/