On Tue, 5 Aug 2003, MJ Ray wrote:
James Edward John Taylor J.E.Taylor@uea.ac.uk wrote:
[...] they will continue to be coddled into a "userfriendly good, console bad" mind set.
Do you agree with this?
me or the rest of Alug?
[...]
And the other problem, perhaps we all stop developing programs RIGHT NOW ok, and everyone wirtes a gui interface for them (of some sort) so EVERYTHING in the OS domain has a gui.... then tommorrow when we start programming agin, its all going to have no-guis.
Why? Surely only some subset of the new features will not have a GUI, unless you're suggesting some way of building a GUI layer that is amazingly brittle.
Ok, so a large proportion of the software is GUI based, and perhaps it is better to keep gui's packaged seperately to the actual "primary" software, which is what happens for most of the software (For instance postgress and something like pgmyadmin).
And I suppose I misunderestimage several things in termms of version 1.01 of softaware foo will use the config file from 1.00 hapilly.
J