--- Gwenole Beauchesne <gb...@di...> wrote:
>
> Shouldn't we have two separate binaries: the prefs editor and the
> emulator itself ?
That would simplify a lot of things for OSs (like IRIX) which don't
generally have GTK+ installed. For example, I have GTK+ installed on my
desktop box, but if I want to try running BII on another IRIX box, I
either have to build w/o the GUI, or export all the GTK+ from my box via
NFS and coerce the remote machine into using it (way ugly, not to
mention slow.)
Aditionally, we may want to consider moving all the back-end pieces
which more-or-less require root access (network, SCSI, cdrom, perhaps
disk ...) into a separate support binary which the main emulator
accesses via pipes or sockets. The support binary could much more
easily (and safely) be made setuid. Performance may suffer a bit,
though.
Just a thought.
--
Brian
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