"Getting ready for the Desktop issue #321" (was: Mandrake 9.0 POLY ARGO: Poio einai to provlhma?)

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On Friday 04 April 2003 08:48, fateswarm wrote:
> koita ntaksi, sobara milontas, oso anikanh einai h microsoft na
> prosferei ena pragmatika low level periballon ston xrhsth, sto opoio low
> level sumperilambanetai kai h probolh tou idiou tou source pou
> dhmiourgei to environment, exoun dwsei ola ta lefta sto na kanoun ena
> leitourgiko pou exei para8irakia. me ta xronia eftase se ena epipedo
> sta8erotitas se auto to tomea pou ksepernaei kata polu ta unix
> leitourgika.

Den exeis grapsei kodika gia windows e? An deis olo to win api exei diloseis 
toy typoy LPINT...

Entelos pliroforiaka ayto proerxetai apo tin epoxh ths assembly kai tis C ston 
8086/8088 opoy eixes far pointer h alios long pointer. 

Gia ayto to logo oloi oi pointers sta windows einai dilomenoi etsi kai oxi me 
ena aplo '*'. Gia na ginetai compile me liges allages se arxitektonikes opoy 
xreiazontan oi long pointers (8086) kai ekei opoy den xreiazontan (80386).

Gia pesmoy tora se ti ksepernaei to linux giati an den ypirxan oi ekatomyria 
extra libraries tha itan adynato na grapsei kodika gia windows me tis 
simerines apaithseis enas aplos anthropos... To API toys einai eksofreniko.

btw.. epsaxna poly na to bro kai telika den ta katafera.. Exo tin entyposi oti 
den yparxei kati antistixo ths select() se windows. As me diapseysei 
kapoios...

> kai to windos 98. Exoun ap'tin allh ena linux desktop environment pou
> eksartatai apo:
> - ti libraries gia DRM exei balei to ka8e distribution
> - ti drivers edose to nvidia group
> - ti <your library here> exei o ka8enas
> - ti <other app here> exei o ka8enas

O kathenas mporei na xrisimopoihsei dikes toy libs kai na tis kanei static 
link sto programma toy. Ena static executable trexei pantoy kai xoris kamia 
lib.

> Se mia epoxh opou tora to linux exei arxisei na apoktaei pragmatikh
> empeiria sto Desktop as mh geliomaste, oso omorfa kai an einai ta
> para8irakia mas kai ta kde mas kai ta icewm mas, toso asta8h einai sto
> blema tou sobarou desktop developer kai kuriws, twn closed source
> etairiwn pou 8eloun mia sta8erh platforma na patisoun pano kai gia
> kalutera proionta alla kai gia kalitero support. Kai san na mh  eftanan
> ola auta, "paidia ths GPL" na emfanizontai me to idio problima
> teleutaia, oxi epeidi de 8a dinoun  sosto support, alla giati 10 atoma
> 8a einai sthn omada, oute auta de ftanoun na dwsoun oloklhromenh eikona
> gia to ti desktop exei o ka8enas xrhsths tous.

To mono problima einai oi allages sto API ton bibliothikon. Aytes synithos 
einai mikres me moni ekseresi to KDE (kai gia ayto pisteyo oti den to 
ekmetaleyetai akoma kanenas)...

> -fs
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p.s. Esy ta grafeis ola ayta h exeis gramatea kai ypagoreyeis ?