On Tue, 27 Nov 2012 19:45:34 +0000 (UTC) Duncan <1i5t5.dun...@cox.net> 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 -- FTG FTI FTP Registered Linux user #214117 at http://linuxcounter.net _______________________________________________ Pan-users mailing list Pan-users@nongnu.org https://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/pan-users
