unencumbered terminal emulators

[Brian K. White]

On 10/19/2010 2:32 PM, Brian K. White wrote:
> 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.

Actually, with mono to fill in for .net to make a port easier, and wine 
to make the whole idea of a real port unnecessary in the first place 
since it already does a pretty good job of emulatine the start magic and 
the registry and even the desktop integration, I really fail to see the 
complaint even more than I already did.

-- 
bkw