Re: [xougen] ANNOUNCE: solidarity with the Y project

[Julien Olivier]

On Mon, 2003-09-29 at 11:17, Per Cederberg wrote:
> On Mon, 2003-09-29 at 11:41, Julien Olivier wrote:
> > One thing that interested me in Y is the server-side widgets idea. What
> > do you think of that ? Is it a good idea ? Should this get into xouvert
> > ?
> 
> There has already been some substantial amount of discussion
> of that idea on this list. If you read the list archives 
> from a couple of weeks back, you'll be able to catch up on 
> the various opinions on the matter. Basically the majority
> answers to your questions seems to be "bad idea", "no" and
> "no". Of course, now that we're feeling solidarity with Y
> those opinions may change... ;-)
> 

Sorry for not reading the archives... I thought it was quite a new idea.

I'm not sure myself whether it's a good or a bad idea. But I'll rea d
the archives and try to make an opinion.

> I must say that I'm seriously impressed with Y.  There's 
> really a nice balance between new and old ideas, making the 
> final solution appear strikingly simple... 
> 

Well, I'm far from being an expert but the most obvious thing is that
this guy did a lot of work.

> /Per