Re: [ANN] mc^2
Hey guys. Just my two cents because I am still subscribed to this list even though after several years my pet ticket with ready-to use improvement patches have still not been merged into the main line because the project is practically dead. No offense meant, it is OSS and the developers do it for free in their sparetime. I have a high respect for that, guys. I know there are more or less frequent releases, but IMO they do not bring a lot of added value, at least not for me. And now there comes along Mooffie and donates something to the project. As I expected based on my experience with my own patches, people start discussing details and demanding smaller patches instead of just breathing some new life into MC by friggin' merging the patches into to code base. Sorry for being an Agile Coach and thus a smart-ass by nature, but can you not just apply, inspect, adapt instead of discussing and staying stuck in your analysis paralysis? Thank you so much for bearing with me, and feel free to just ignore my rant if you do not like it. I have no intention of self-defending me or my theses and turning this discussion into a flame war. I just wanted to get this off my chest. Kind regards -- Alexander Kriegisch http://scrum-master.de___ mc-devel mailing list https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/mc-devel
Re: Midnight-commander.org is down
+1 Alexander Kriegisch Am 28.04.2013 um 09:10 schrieb Egmont Koblinger egm...@gmail.com: Hey, Purely out of curiosity: Have you thought about moving development hosting entirely to the cloud (e.g. sourceforge, savannah, google code, ...)? If you have and decided not to, what were the reasons in maintaining your own server (hardware, os, application setups, backup etc...)? To me this sounds like a huge overhead and probably a huge cost too for something others could freely take care of for you. Thanks a lot, egmont On Fri, Apr 26, 2013 at 7:50 AM, Slava Zanko slavaza...@gmail.com wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi folks, Our server donated by RWTH, Germany has blown up. Folks at OSU OSL (http://osuosl.org/) are willing to provide us with a new server. So in near time we will migrate to new server (it's will take some time for setting up some services/programs as it was on old server). I hope, it's will not take so much time, our estimations: a week. Please, be patient and sorry for inconvenience. Thank you. - -- WBR, Slavaz. -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.13 (GNU/Linux) iEYEARECAAYFAlF6FaUACgkQb3oGR6aVLppV+ACfWk3QC1F/HQn8hGw1QHHYJjay PPkAnj5tuywd3m+Jdp846A1rH17iIe+Q =vx+1 -END PGP SIGNATURE- ___ mc-devel mailing list https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/mc-devel ___ mc-devel mailing list https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/mc-devel ___ mc-devel mailing list https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/mc-devel
Re: Segfault when viewing HTML files with mc -v
Nikos, never mind, I had the same problems when first I wanted to create a ticket with some patches for bugfixes and new features. And do not be shocked about the security warning in the browser. The developers say it is meant to be this way. My impression is that this project is kind of dead anyway. Nobody ever really cared about my inquiries on this list or my well documented ticket #2742 on midnight-commander.org, even though I am offering major improvements for subshell support and worked my ass off to get the patches working in a way which might seem fit to be committed (I do not even speak C, so it was kinda hard for me, but this is my own problem, I am just mentioning it). I think that the honourable guys working in their spare time on this project just do not have enough of it to spend. So if you or anyone else on this list really knows how to write good C code and are interested in pushing this project forward, I think you should contact the core developers and offer your assistance. My abilities are too limited C-wise, so I think fresh blood needs to come from other directions. Sorry to the development team if this message might sound a bit polemic, I do not mean to insult anyone. It is always easier to talk than to act, I am aware of that. But I do think this project needs another structure in order to gain more momentum. What I can do to help I am offering here and now: I am a professional agile project management coach (http://scrum-master.de, sorry the page is in German). What spare time I have I can dedicate to setting up a Scrum or Kanban process for you guys if you are interested. Alexander Kriegisch Am 30.07.2012 um 10:11 schrieb Nikos Chantziaras rea...@gmail.com: On 30/07/12 09:27, Andrew Borodin wrote: On Mon, 30 Jul 2012 01:38:53 +0300 Nikos Chantziaras wrote: (I'm on Linux 64-bit. This happens with current Git master as well as the 4.8.4 release. 4.8.3 does not have the issue. Thanks for the bugreport. But best way to report bugs is to create ticket at midnight-commander.org. Yeah, I tried to find the bug tracker, but couldn't find it in the page I *thought* is MC's homepage: http://www.gnu.org/software/mc/ It's at the top when googling midnight commander. Likewise, googling for midnight commander bug tracker gets you to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/bugtrackers/mc-bugs which at the top of the page claims: New official bug tracker for Midnight Commander project but you can't file any bugs there. You guys might want to sort out all those different and spread out pages. (I did in the past sign up in the real bug tracker, but this isn't something I could have remembered years after.) Since segfault is serious bug, I created ticket myself: https://www.midnight-commander.org/ticket/2858. Please test that fix. Yep, that fixes it. ___ mc-devel mailing list https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/mc-devel ___ mc-devel mailing list https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/mc-devel
How to add subshell support for ash
I am on an embedded environment. Bash is available as a separate package, but huge in comparison with the built-in ash of BusyBox. Disclaimer before I continue: I am *not* a C programmer. I can read a bit of C, but not develop anything meaningful other than copy, paste and modify existing code. So bear with me anyway, if you please. I looked into src/subshell.c and tried to figure out what happens there. I have started to add ash support, but MC seems to depend on PROMPT_COMMAND/precmd/fish_prompt, i.e. on a function or alias which is executed each time just before a prompt is printed. Ash does not have anything like that, AFAIK. If I understand correctly, using those pre-commands are MC's way of determining the cwd. I wonder why you do not just use something like pwd or $PWD, but OTOH I do not understand the difficulties of corresponding with the subshell. Anyway, in my case it would be absolutely fine to set a fixed value of PS1='\w\$ ' for the subshell and read the cwd from the prompt. In any case it would be better than not having the option of using ash as a subshell at all. Could anyone maybe provide me with a code snippet or a patch which shows me how to extract the cwd from the prompt assuming that PS1 has the value '\w\$ '? (BTW, '\$' will be evaluated to '$' or '#' in ash, depending on whether you are root or not.) Thank you so much. If I succeed in adding ash as a subshell, I will provide a (raw) patch for you to inspect and maybe refine and include upstream. Thanks in advance and kind regards -- Alexander Kriegisch ___ mc-devel mailing list http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/mc-devel
Re: Moving the MC homepage to www.gnu.org
OT: Damn, this happens *every time* I do not explicitly remember not to answer e-mails from this list directly: They are sent to the person whose message I answer instead of to the list, so I have to create another copy with the right address. Can this be fixed? --- In my opinion GNU software belongs to the gnu.org HTTP and FTP servers. It might take a while for external link sources and search engines to update their direct links, but otherwise I don't see any disadvantage. Another plus would be the automatic availability of MC on all GNU FTP mirrors. BTW: I welcome your promotion and believe you will be a good maintainer for this project. -- Alexander Kriegisch ___ Mc-devel mailing list http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/mc-devel
Re: Getting ready for a release
Hi! April 19, 2007 Release Management in Large Free Software Projects I cannot do much on the C programming side (I am rather into Java, shell and a few other things, but just in case you are interested in agile project management: I am a Certified Scrum Master (cf. my web site, http://scrum-master.de) and might be able to offer free services to your project, depending on my clients, ongoing commercial projects and coaching classes I am involved in. Pavel, this is not supposed to turn into a sales pitch thing, so if you are interested at all, send a private e-mail so we can discuss this off-line. Regards -- Alexander Kriegisch ___ Mc-devel mailing list http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/mc-devel
Re: Cross-compiling to mipsel-linux with uClibC 0.9.28?
Have you tried building glib for you platform ? Yes, I have, and successful. But then I had another problem which I don't remember just now. I tried a week ago or so, I already wiped the directories because I had not expected an answer anymore. I might try again on a day when I have more time to play. Actually, I can live well enough with 4.5.0, I just wanted to giv it a try because nobody seems to have given it a shot so far. Another question which arises now is: Which was the latest MC version *not* using GLib? I am currently running mc-4.5.0, and it works fine. Unfortunately I cannot tell but it really would be something old - more than 6 years old... If you find out by means of CVS log, what's new docs or whatever, let me know. Thanks for now Alexander Kriegisch ___ Mc-devel mailing list http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/mc-devel
Cross-compiling to mipsel-linux with uClibC 0.9.28?
I would like to know if this is possible for mc-4.6.1. If so, how? I am not a C programmer and have limited knowledge of make, automake, autoconf. I only know that configure complains about glibc not being part of my toolchain, which is intended because glibc is not the library of choice for embedded systems like my WLAN router. If this question seems stupid, I apologise. If it has been asked before, I have not found it by thoroughly searching the archives of both mc and mc-devel. Regards -- Alexander Kriegisch ___ Mc-devel mailing list http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/mc-devel
Re: Cross-compiling to mipsel-linux with uClibC 0.9.28?
I wrote: I would like to know if this is possible for mc-4.6.1. If so, how? I am not a C programmer and have limited knowledge of make, automake, autoconf. I only know that configure complains about glibc not being part of my toolchain, which is intended because glibc is not the library of choice for embedded systems like my WLAN router. If this question seems stupid, I apologise. If it has been asked before, I have not found it by thoroughly searching the archives of both mc and mc-devel. Sorry, I that was GLib, not glibc. I just noticed that subtle but important naming difference. So I think it might get hard to do what I want, I guess. I would be glad to get some input anyway. How deeply entwined are GLib calls into MC? Does it use many of them or might it be possible to expand a few in order to get rid of the dependancies? Being naive again, probably, and speculative as well. Thanks for bearing with it. Another question which arises now is: Which was the latest MC version *not* using GLib? I am currently running mc-4.5.0, and it works fine. -- Alexander Kriegisch ___ Mc-devel mailing list http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/mc-devel
