Re: [dwm] dwm: request to discuss

Maxim Vuets wrote:
> 2008/8/29, Donald Chai <donald.chai_AT_gmail.com>:
>
> >> I think that mouse is not really important for dwm status bar.
> >> So we can neglect of such feedback.
> >> I can not agree we you that shared libraries and some ABI is so bad.
> >> But agree that it is too heavy for such program as dwm. It is useless
> >> here. On the other hand, extending via code patching is wierd.
> >> Especially when you need to apply more than one patch.
> >
> > You might enjoy reading this interview with Don Knuth:
> > http://www.informit.com/articles/article.aspx?p=1193856
> > Basically, "re-editable" code is better than reusable code (to him).
>
> Thanks a lot for the link, I'll look it a bit later.
> My 5 cents (: Knuth is a mathematician. All that theory is good, but
> it is not always applicable in practice. IIRC, Eric Raymond says
> that binary RPC is evil, threads are evil etc. But look: we are using
> Apache httpd with threads and mod_*.so, PAM... So every

You are using Apache? Shame on you ;). Seriously Apache is definitively
not suckless.

> technical approach is good and useful in some exact context of its
> usage. Threads are evil for dwm (: but is good for highload network
> server. And so on.

Hmmm, I think threads make it just easier to write software that does
several things concurrently. AFAIR Plan 9 has good examples were this
kind of concurrency is used in a nice way.

> Just for a note: yes, .so for dwm is evil. I've already said it.
> But unix-way IPC---looks not so bad, I think.

Do you mean pipes or sockets? Pipe are definitely suckless. But this
whole UNIX socket API sucks really.
 
> > What version of dwm are you using?
>
> Tip.
>
> > dwm has had two workspaces/desktops since I've been using it
> > (admittedly not very long). Press MOD-Tab to switch between them.
>
> Hm, right. In fact it is just previous set of tags. Not actualy that I want
> to get. And does not work with more than two desktops.

Regards
Matthias-Christian
Received on Fri Aug 29 2008 - 09:16:34 UTC