Re: Niche for Hurd - discussion - the power of translators

[Arne Babenhauserheide]

Am Dienstag 11 November 2008 03:58:39 schrieb olafBuddenhagen@gmx.net:
>    settrans -c /ftp: /hurd/hostmux /hurd/ftpfs /

I rewrote my short intro to that. 

It looks nicer than first using touch :) 

Thanks! 

> Technically, it's not a big deal to set it up. But it's an enormous
> psychological difference whether you tell people "you can set up
> transparent FTP on the Hurd, if you find the magic incantation somewhere
> on the net", or "Debian GNU/Hurd comes with transparent FTP".

- snip -

> I wonder what it would take to get this into Debian as default...

I think the first step to that would be to just set this up for the qemu image 
(just as with namespace based translator selection: Build a reference qemu 
image with all neat features enabled). 

Best wishes, 
Arne
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