Re: [B2-devel] B2+DGA=OK

[Brian J. J. <bjj...@us...>]

--- 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.

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                                                Brian

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