Re: Intent to package wterm

1999-01-28 Thread Anthony Wong 
On Thu, Jan 28, 1999 at 12:00:43PM -0500, Brian Mays wrote:
|> Adam Klein wrote:
|
|>> Oh, fro the rxvt package?  hmm.  Do I need to incorporate those?
|
|Marcelo E. Magallon wrote:
|
|> Well, they are there for a reason, aren't they?
|
|Some of the patches will not need to be added, unless you are also
|planning to make a Kanji, Greek, or Chinese version of wterm.
|
|Brian

Well, if the patching is not much a hassle, then I suggest those
patches should be applied too as long as the binary size doesn't
increase very much. I hate to see so many localized versions of
the same program floating around. Users will find it confusing.
The ftp server will carry fewer packages too (1 internationalized
version instead of several localized ones).

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Re: Intent to package wterm

1999-01-28 Thread Brian Mays 
> Adam Klein wrote:

>> Oh, fro the rxvt package?  hmm.  Do I need to incorporate those?

Marcelo E. Magallon wrote:

> Well, they are there for a reason, aren't they?

Some of the patches will not need to be added, unless you are also
planning to make a Kanji, Greek, or Chinese version of wterm.

Brian

Re: Intent to package wterm

1999-01-28 Thread Marcelo E. Magallon 
On Wed, Jan 27, 1999 at 02:53:30PM -0800, Adam Klein wrote:
> On Wed, Jan 27, 1999 at 11:05:43AM -0600, Marcelo E. Magallon wrote:
> > I mean the debian patches. Some of them are incorporated upstream, some are
> > not.
> 
> Oh, fro the rxvt package?  hmm.  Do I need to incorporate those?

Well, they are there for a reason, aren't they?


Marcelo

Re: Intent to package wterm

1999-01-27 Thread Adam Klein 
On Wed, Jan 27, 1999 at 11:05:43AM -0600, Marcelo E. Magallon wrote:
> I mean the debian patches. Some of them are incorporated upstream, some are
> not.

Oh, fro the rxvt package?  hmm.  Do I need to incorporate those?

Adam

Re: Intent to package wterm

1999-01-27 Thread Marcelo E. Magallon 
On Wed, Jan 27, 1999 at 08:40:47AM -0800, Adam Klein wrote:
> On Wed, Jan 27, 1999 at 08:17:39AM -0600, Marcelo E. Magallon wrote:
> > Hi,
> > 
> > On Wed, Jan 27, 1999 at 01:06:34AM -0800, Adam Klein wrote:
> > 
> > > wterm is another Rxvt hack.  It is designed for use with Window Maker,
> > > although it will work fine with any window manager. It includes
> > > transparency, N*XTStep-like scroll bars, and colored shading.
> > 
> >  Yes!!! Someone bit!!! 
> > 
> >  A word of caution Adam: PLEASE check out the diff for rxvt.  You'll find
> >  that:
> > 
> >  a) There are lots of patches
> > 
> >  b) Not every patch has been incorporated to upstream rxvt source (read the
> > colourful comments on the debianized source)
> 
> Hmm?  I got the source from the Largo's site, and it's not distributed as
> a patch, but a full source tree.  Have these patches been included
> upstream?  I'm packaging anonymous coder's version, rather than Alfredo.

I mean the debian patches. Some of them are incorporated upstream, some are
not.


Marcelo

Re: Intent to package wterm

1999-01-27 Thread Adam Klein 
On Wed, Jan 27, 1999 at 08:17:39AM -0600, Marcelo E. Magallon wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> On Wed, Jan 27, 1999 at 01:06:34AM -0800, Adam Klein wrote:
> 
> > wterm is another Rxvt hack.  It is designed for use with Window Maker,
> > although it will work fine with any window manager. It includes
> > transparency, N*XTStep-like scroll bars, and colored shading.
> 
>  Yes!!! Someone bit!!! 
> 
>  A word of caution Adam: PLEASE check out the diff for rxvt.  You'll find
>  that:
> 
>  a) There are lots of patches
> 
>  b) Not every patch has been incorporated to upstream rxvt source (read the
> colourful comments on the debianized source)

Hmm?  I got the source from the Largo's site, and it's not distributed as
a patch, but a full source tree.  Have these patches been included
upstream?  I'm packaging anonymous coder's version, rather than Alfredo.

>  c) Debian's version of rxvt and upstream's new version don't like each
> other AT ALL from the patch POV.

Debian's version is pretty old.  It's based on the last "stable" version,
but it's been extensively patched.

Adam

Re: Intent to package wterm

1999-01-27 Thread Marcelo E. Magallon 
Hi,

On Wed, Jan 27, 1999 at 01:06:34AM -0800, Adam Klein wrote:

> wterm is another Rxvt hack.  It is designed for use with Window Maker,
> although it will work fine with any window manager. It includes
> transparency, N*XTStep-like scroll bars, and colored shading.

 Yes!!! Someone bit!!! 

 A word of caution Adam: PLEASE check out the diff for rxvt.  You'll find
 that:

 a) There are lots of patches

 b) Not every patch has been incorporated to upstream rxvt source (read the
colourful comments on the debianized source)

 c) Debian's version of rxvt and upstream's new version don't like each
other AT ALL from the patch POV.

 d) Be prepared for a nightmarish journey regarding configuration.  This
infamous "anonymous coder" (that stinks!) seems have 'PropList config
files' on his/her TODO list.

 e) /me hopes you'll package the newest version, which means either
"Requieres: wmaker (>= 0.50.2)" (not nice) or "Conflicts: wmaker (<<
0.50.2)". "Suggests: wmaker (>= 0.50.2)" would be nice, too (this
program IS intented to work with Window Maker, but it doesn't requiere
it). I have NO idea whatsoever as to why it doesn't like older versions
of Window Maker.

 Thanks, this is REALLY appreciated,


Marcelo

Intent to package wterm

1999-01-27 Thread Adam Klein 
wterm is another Rxvt hack.  It is designed for use with Window Maker,
although it will work fine with any window manager.  It includes transparency,
N*XTStep-like scroll bars, and colored shading.  It is smaller and faster
than Eterm.  You can find it at .

Adam


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