> I hope that helps! Yes, thanks! I will try to allocate some time to look into this.
Best, Gab On Tue, 14 Jan 2020 at 14:15, Antoine Beaupré <anar...@debian.org> wrote: > > On 2020-01-13 23:10:09, Gabriele wrote: > > Hi > > > > May I ask to clarify what the request is about? > > It's about shipping the austin-tui binary in Debian, in one form or the > other. > > > Is it for a new Debian package, e.g. austin-tui, to be produced so > > that it is easier to install the TUI? Or is it a request for providing > > the TUI already with the installation of the existing Austin package? > > I don't mind either way. I guess the decision should be made based on > the dependencies the new binary would generate. If there's extra > undesired dependencies, I'd put it in a separate package, yes. > > > At the moment, installation from the Github repository is, imho, easy > > enough. I would be a bit reluctant to create a dedicated package or > > ship the TUI as an official application because it is more of an > > example of how to use Austin than a properly maintained tool (although > > I appreciate that it can be quite useful; I use it quite frequently > > myself too). > > After reading the README, I didn't feel the TUI app was an example as > much as the real thing. My thinking is that, out of the box, austin is > not very useful in itself... You need to pipe it into *something* to > have good results, and none of those "things" are really available in > Debian by default. So it would be nice if this could work better with > software in Debian, as opposed to telling people to install unreviewed > software from the internet... > > > Anyway, once it is clearer to me what is being asked for with this > > issue report I can have a look and see what I can do :). > > I hope that helps! > > a. > -- > PHP was originally designed explicitly for non-programmers (and, reading > between the lines, non-programs); it has not well escaped its roots. > - Alex Munroe, PHP: a fractal of bad design -- "Egli è scritto in lingua matematica, e i caratteri son triangoli, cerchi, ed altre figure geometriche, senza i quali mezzi è impossibile a intenderne umanamente parola; senza questi è un aggirarsi vanamente per un oscuro laberinto." -- G. Galilei, Il saggiatore.
