Re: FVWM: Proposal on modules/languages

From: Brady Montz <bradym_at_cs.arizona.edu>
Date: 05 May 1998 16:16:51 -0700

Dan Espen <dane_at_mk.bellcore.com> writes:

> I don't see how you have answered #4 above. Wouldn't having an
> interpreter hooked up to fvwm2 consume lots of memory instantly
> transforming fvwm2 into CDE?

Probably about a meg. Certainly significant. There will be some memory
benefits to getting rid of the internal interpreter as well.

>
> Wouldn't any new "fvwm plus interpreter" project be redundant to the
> scwm project? (It doesn't seem to me that it makes much of a
> difference whether the interpreter is Scheme, Perl, Tcl, Java.)
>
> I haven't come to any final opinion, I'd like to see how scwm works
> out, but so far I'm not having many problems I can't solve with fvwm2.

I didn't know about the scwm project until recently. I agree that it seems
quite redundant, so much so that I suggested in my last post that perhaps it
would be best for everyone if scwm became fvwm version 3.

I personally have lots of problems with FvwmIconMan, and other modules which I
would like to write, that would be solved by having an interpreter in fvwm.

-- 
 Brady Montz
 bradym_at_cs.arizona.edu
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