Re: bigger, sexier, more phly debian...
Martin Alonso Soto Jacome wrote:
>
> On Tue, 16 Apr 1996, Ean Schuessler wrote:
> I think Java can be ported to whatever graphics system is available. It
> would even be possible to develop a X protocol extension allowing client
> apps to send Java programs to the X server in order to be executed
> directly there. That would make execution of Java very efficient, even
> across very slow connections, and wouldn't need a complete rework of X,
> only a protocol extension that can be added without modifying the big and
> complex core of the windowing system.
>
This would be nice, and has more possibilities than a completely java-based
system. It is, however, a question for the X consortium to ponder. Even
the XFree team would be ill-advised to impliment something like this if it
were not part of standard X. I wonder how either LBX (which seems to not
be continuing development) or sxpc would compare to this concept. While
these are not platform-independent, they are perhaps more fully developed
than java.
This is, however, not a debian concern, I don't think.
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