Henrique de Moraes Holschuh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Tue, 14 Feb 2006, Ron Johnson wrote: > >> On Tue, 2006-02-14 at 03:35 -0500, Glenn Maynard wrote: >> > On Tue, Feb 14, 2006 at 10:07:45AM +0200, Jari Aalto wrote: >> > > Ron Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> > > >> > > > On Tue, 2006-02-14 at 01:16 +0200, Jari Aalto wrote: >> > > >> >> > > >> The speciality is the small size + GUI to send mail. Useful for >> > > >> low end harware (166Mhz / 64 M mem). >> > > > >> > > > But that's just it. It's for *sending* mail only. What is the >> > > > purpose of a GUI for sending mail? >> > > >> > > The small memory footprint. In minimalistic Window manager + >> > > minimalistic program to send mail. >> > >> > Err, who uses GTK when "small memory footprint" or "minimalistic" >> > are objectives? >> >> XFce is lighter than GNOME. >> >> And writing in GTK is (supposed to be) easier that writing Xlib. > > Which's the reason you use xaw. But in this case, it is a simple X-based > form plugged to broken crap that needs to be replaced, and which could well > be replaced by a call to sendmail. Thus, you don't even need C code, just a > tcl/tk script.
Not so fast. If the light weight system is to be kept as small as possible, the additional tcl/Tk libraries would not be welcomed. GTK at least is common to most of the C programs that do not bring along other libraries. The programs talks directly to SMTP, so there is no need to require a MTA in the system. Upstream is interested in getting the program in better shape based on the malloc-discussion here. Jari -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
