On Tue, 21 Oct 2003, Mark Taylor wrote:
> On Tue, 21 Oct 2003, Giaretta, DL (David) wrote:
>
> > We could disregard this view. Or we could demonstrate that there is a very
> > simple installation mechanism (like Acrobat for example).
>
> if we did this, WebStart might be a good way to go.
WebStart does seem to avoid many of the problems of applets (if you've
never tried WebStart have a go, it is good), however, I've never looked
into how native libraries are handled (other than to see passing
references to this in the documentation).
If this works, then we would need to commit to producing shareable
libraries for a larger range of OSes than at present.
(Norman's plan to get AST building using autoconf would help a lot, if
enough people could be pursuaded to contribute).
Peter.
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