Re: Nothing Doing (longish).

2005-10-05 Thread silverspurg
I don't do much, either, except go to work and write an installer that no one uses. :) I'd like to translate it to C... Steven -- -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/blfs-dev FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page

Re: Remove GTK+-1? (was - Re: Nothing Doing (longish).)

2005-10-05 Thread Alexander E. Patrakov
Dan Nicholson wrote: On 10/5/05, Randy McMurchy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Andrew Benton wrote these words on 10/05/05 12:54 CST: It seems to me that there is some dead wood that should be pruned from BLFS. glib-1.2 hasn't been able to compile unpatched since gcc-3.3. I'd drop it as unmai

GTK+-1

2005-10-05 Thread Bruce Dubbs
Although the applications using gtk+-1 are slowly being updated to gtk+-2, it is not yet time to remove it from BLFS. -- Bruce -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/blfs-dev FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page

Re: Remove GTK+-1? (was - Re: Nothing Doing (longish).)

2005-10-05 Thread Andrew Benton
Randy McMurchy wrote: I'll disagree here. There are many useful GTK+-1 applications out there. XMMS being one of them. Noted on the XMMS home page: "For the fifth year in a row XMMS has been voted Favourite Audio Tool by the readers of LinuxJournal." Not that their self-advertising is worth a w

Re: Remove GTK+-1?

2005-10-05 Thread Randy McMurchy
Tushar Teredesai wrote these words on 10/05/05 15:12 CST: > Just a suggestion in case the majority don't want gnome1 in the book. It's *impossible* to determine a majority. The *readers* of the book are what matters. It is impossible to poll them. We recently removed Courier from the book. But f

Re: Remove GTK+-1?

2005-10-05 Thread Tushar Teredesai
On 10/5/05, Randy McMurchy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Tushar Teredesai wrote these words on 10/05/05 13:37 CST: > > > Though gnome1 is useful for gnucash, it is not yet ported to gnome2. > > Perhaps gnucash should be made into an hint instead of keeping it in > > the book? > > Why? What useful pu

Re: Nothing Doing (longish).

2005-10-05 Thread Bruce Dubbs
Richard A Downing wrote: > Guys, > > You might have noticed that I have not committed anything recently. [deleted] > > To put it simply, I just don't enjoy being an editor - and I'm > embarrased that I have not felt able to do more. Maybe I'm missing > something, so please help me make up my

Re: Remove GTK+-1?

2005-10-05 Thread Richard A Downing
Matthew Burgess wrote: > Richard A Downing wrote: > >> Of course, you have to have some cash > > > And not be married - a finanical management application is of no use to > me whatsoever - I already know my wife spends money faster than I can > earn it, I don't need a computer to tell me tha

Re: Remove GTK+-1? (was - Re: Nothing Doing (longish).)

2005-10-05 Thread Richard A Downing
Randy McMurchy wrote: I hate it when people do that to a perfectly innocent thread. Start your own! By Hijacker. R. -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/blfs-dev FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page

Nothing Doing (longish).

2005-10-05 Thread sash
My daughter called while I was typing this... I knew I shouldn't have sent it while on the telephone with her sash wrote: All I do for the project is keep order, common courtesy and consideration on IRC and occasionally offer a grammar suggestion or find a typo in the book<.> However, Gerard

Re: Nothing Doing (longish).

2005-10-05 Thread Richard A Downing
sash wrote: > All I do for the project is keep order, common courtesy and > consideration on IRC and occasionally offer a grammar suggestion or find > a typo in the book However, Gerard values my contribution even though it > seems meager me. I value everyone's contributions and enjoy learning > fr

Re: Remove GTK+-1?

2005-10-05 Thread Matthew Burgess
Richard A Downing wrote: Of course, you have to have some cash And not be married - a finanical management application is of no use to me whatsoever - I already know my wife spends money faster than I can earn it, I don't need a computer to tell me that :) Matt. -- http://linuxfromscra

Re: Remove GTK+-1?

2005-10-05 Thread Richard A Downing
Randy McMurchy wrote: > Dan Nicholson wrote these words on 10/05/05 13:16 CST: > >>As for gnome-1, I'm not sure >>why anyone would be using that. > > > It is a must for GnuCash. Which is a really, really good > financial/cash manager application. > Of course, you have to have some cash R.

Re: Remove GTK+-1?

2005-10-05 Thread Jasmine Iwanek
Matthew Burgess wrote: Randy McMurchy wrote: GnuCash works with current LFS-SVN and fills a void that really can't be solved with any other open source package. Aside from those recently reviewed by The Grumpy Editor, of course: http://lwn.net/Articles/149383/. Note, I'm not suggesting th

Re: Remove GTK+-1?

2005-10-05 Thread Matthew Burgess
Randy McMurchy wrote: GnuCash works with current LFS-SVN and fills a void that really can't be solved with any other open source package. Aside from those recently reviewed by The Grumpy Editor, of course: http://lwn.net/Articles/149383/. Note, I'm not suggesting that GnuCash be removed, j

Re: Remove GTK+-1? (was - Re: Nothing Doing (longish).)

2005-10-05 Thread Dan Nicholson
On 10/5/05, Tushar Teredesai <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > There is a gtk2 fork of xmms, beep media player. Just make the > following symlinks for compatibility: >ln -sf beep-config /usr/bin/xmms-config >ln -sf libbeep.so /usr/lib/libxmms.so Yeah, I use this, but it's sometimes still buggy.

Re: Remove GTK+-1?

2005-10-05 Thread Randy McMurchy
Tushar Teredesai wrote these words on 10/05/05 13:37 CST: > Though gnome1 is useful for gnucash, it is not yet ported to gnome2. > Perhaps gnucash should be made into an hint instead of keeping it in > the book? Why? What useful purpose would that do? GnuCash works with current LFS-SVN and fills

Nothing Doing (longish).

2005-10-05 Thread sash
All I do for the project is keep order, common courtesy and consideration on IRC and occasionally offer a grammar suggestion or find a typo in the book However, Gerard values my contribution even though it seems meager me. I value everyone's contributions and enjoy learning from all of you. We'

Re: Remove GTK+-1? (was - Re: Nothing Doing (longish).)

2005-10-05 Thread Tushar Teredesai
On 10/5/05, Dan Nicholson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Second that. For XMMS alone, it's worth keeping glib-1, gtk+-1. I > personally will err on the side of gtk-2 every time, but inevitably > something forces me to install gtk-1. As for gnome-1, I'm not sure > why anyone would be using that.

Re: Remove GTK+-1?

2005-10-05 Thread Randy McMurchy
Dan Nicholson wrote these words on 10/05/05 13:16 CST: > As for gnome-1, I'm not sure > why anyone would be using that. It is a must for GnuCash. Which is a really, really good financial/cash manager application. -- Randy rmlscsi: [GNU ld version 2.15.94.0.2 20041220] [gcc (GCC) 3.4.3] [GNU C L

Re: Remove GTK+-1? (was - Re: Nothing Doing (longish).)

2005-10-05 Thread Dan Nicholson
On 10/5/05, Randy McMurchy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Andrew Benton wrote these words on 10/05/05 12:54 CST: > > > It seems to me that there is some dead wood that should be > > pruned from BLFS. glib-1.2 hasn't been able to compile unpatched since > > gcc-3.3. I'd drop it as unmaintained, alo

Remove GTK+-1? (was - Re: Nothing Doing (longish).)

2005-10-05 Thread Randy McMurchy
Andrew Benton wrote these words on 10/05/05 12:54 CST: > It seems to me that there is some dead wood that should be pruned > from BLFS. glib-1.2 hasn't been able to compile unpatched since gcc-3.3. I'd > drop it as unmaintained, along with all the gtk1 applications. Gnome-1, > Xmms, bin the lo

Re: Nothing Doing (longish).

2005-10-05 Thread Andrew Benton
Richard A Downing wrote: my experience is that others on the team quite often (and usually rightly) criticise my decisions - this makes me unwilling to make the attempt unless it's a very simple case. I'm not sure that there are many simple cases anymore, at least not with Xorg going modular and

Re: Nothing Doing (longish).

2005-10-05 Thread David Jensen
Richard A Downing wrote: Guys, You might have noticed that I have not committed anything recently. Same here! The bugs needing attention, I plain don't use. Worse, for now I'm stuck with *dial-up* and a dog of a computer. I wont resign yet. -- David Jensen -- http://linuxfromscra

Re: Nothing Doing (longish).

2005-10-05 Thread Randy McMurchy
Richard A Downing wrote these words on 10/05/05 11:12 CST: > You might have noticed that I have not committed anything recently. So what, neither has Igor. I did notice you updated Bluefish not too long ago. Any contribution helps. You don't need to feel obligated to make commits. Just do what yo

Nothing Doing (longish).

2005-10-05 Thread Richard A Downing
Guys, You might have noticed that I have not committed anything recently. I'm considering leaving the team (note: not going away in a huff or to spend more time with my wife :-) - but thought I would air this first and get your reaction. On my normal system I don't build LFS in a standard way.