Re: [wmii] removing 9base dependency, depending on plan9port as option, switching back to sh?

On Fri, 24 Feb 2006 12:11:33 +0100, "Anselm R. Garbe" <garbeam_AT_wmii.de> said:
[sh instead of rc, no plan9 required]
> The only requirement is, that it is sh and not bash, thus it should
> work well with ksh, sh (BSD), and bash, which means, only use the sh
> subset - like we had it once in wmii-2.

> What do you think? I'm convinced that is the better way, to spread
> out wmii-3.

It is okay for me.

I'm having some performance issues anyways (also with rc). I' m
working on a PC I don't own, with few ram and a home-dir thats on
nfs. The nfs server has very poor performance, and sometimes stops
responding for seconds. The thing is: evertime one wants to change
windows or do something else, it touches the nfs-share and stops
responding. It got worse, so i even switched back to one of the bad
WMs which -because they are only one program- stay in memory and stay
responsive.

I know, that this is one withdraw of the (good) design, and there is
not much to improve this (the only idea i had was to write some
program which stays in memory and do all the tasks the shell-scripts
would do - but thats ugly).

> PS: Yes, and reinventing wheels is bad.

Sometimes it is better to stop riding, when you notice your horse is
dead. (The germans know the proper saying).

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