unencumbered terminal emulators

[Brian K. White]

On 10/19/2010 2:05 PM, Bill Campbell wrote:
> On Tue, Oct 19, 2010, Brian K. White wrote:
>> Just discovered something that looks even better than my putty fork for
>> an open source unencumbered, customizable so it can be given the
>> necessary features to make it useful for vars/integrators like the
>> typical filepro developer.
>>
>> http://en.poderosa.org/present/about_poderosa.html
>
> I thought this would be interesting until I saw that it is truly
> encumbered -- by being Windows only.
>
> Bill

Who needs a terminal emulator on linux?

Who in there right mind would allow a linux terminal emulator to issue 
exec() calls on the client from the server?

There are a host of things that that a commercial application developer 
and system integrator needs to do which simply don't apply outside of 
windows, or at least windows & mac. Or, maybe they apply, but the 
development effort to reproduce the needed features on Linux would be 
wildly impractical.

Then again, since it's open source it's not limited to any such thing as 
windows. Anyone may make a linux port and then make linux versions of 
the TWAIN stuff I'm working on that use SANE instead of TWAIN, 
reimpliment the windows start command magic so that the exec(0 feature 
works even slightly similarly across platforms, reimpliment the windows 
registry features somehow safely within a users home space (users own 
mime-types and/or magic files that overlay onto the system ones?)

Have fun with all that.

It's not encumbered, you're just lazy. And so am I because sure I'd like 
all that stuff too in fantasy land where I don't have to deal with end 
users who are 2 or more levels of indirection away from me and not 
subject to my recomendations as to what is the godliest desktop OS they 
should use.

-- 
bkw