RE: [ITP] email-2.3.0

2004-10-17 Thread Gary R. Van Sickle
[snip] > > Also, given that > > > http://cvs.sourceforge.net/viewcvs.py/nail/nail/README?rev=HEAD&view=m > > arkup > > states: > > > > "On the other hand, I strongly discourage from porting nail > to Windows > > and environments that make Windows look Unix-like; I won't > accept any > > patch

Re: [ITP] email-2.3.0

2004-10-17 Thread Harold L Hunt II
Ross Smith II wrote: [snip] Also, given that http://cvs.sourceforge.net/viewcvs.py/nail/nail/README?rev=HEAD&view=markup states: "On the other hand, I strongly discourage from porting nail to Windows and environments that make Windows look Unix-like; I won't accept any patches or suggestions that g

Re: [ITP] email-2.3.0

2004-10-17 Thread Ross Smith II
Christopher Faylor wrote: > I'm sorry but, here again, we're talking about porting an AFAICT, > non-standard package to cygwin when we're missing something as basic as > "mailx" (or nail, or whatever). Given that argument, how would a new program ever become "standard"? > Isn't there anyone out

Re: [ITP] email-2.3.0

2004-10-17 Thread Harold L Hunt II
Christopher Faylor wrote: [snip] Isn't there anyone out there who can perform the dead-simple act of packaging up nail for this purprose? Sorry, can't be done: nail has a file called aux.c... the apocalypse must be coming soon. Harold

Re: Policy to accept new packages? (was: Re: [ITP] shellsupport-1.2.4-1)

2004-10-17 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Sun, Oct 17, 2004 at 04:23:31PM +0300, Jari Aalto+mail.linux wrote: >I would more like to see... Well, unfortunately (or fortunately, depending on how you look at it), this isn't strictly a democracy. It is more like a benign or (depending how you look at it) mean co-dictatorship. >I think to

Re: [ITP] email-2.3.0

2004-10-17 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Sat, Oct 16, 2004 at 10:13:33AM +0200, Gerrit P. Haase wrote: >Ross Smith II wrote: >>I want to contribute/maintain email. >> >>Canonical website: http://email.cleancode.org/ > >Though I use nail for this, which unfortunately not included, please >count +1 vote from me. I'm sorry but, here agai

Re: cygwin, tcl/tk, and "native" [Was: Re: Interest in "native" Tcl/Tk/Expect/Itcl/... packages?]

2004-10-17 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Sat, Oct 16, 2004 at 03:46:45AM -0400, Jean-Sebastien Trottier wrote: >I like the third option... I'm not going to use gdb as much as Chris >so I think he is in a better position to maintain it. > >However, I agree to take care of cutting the first stable gdb + >"Cygwin, W11" Tcl/Tk version. >

GNOME progress report (with screenshot!)

2004-10-17 Thread Yaakov Selkowitz
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hello everyone, Yes, there's been a lot of back-and-forth between me and Gerrit regarding the packaging of the GNOME libraries and desktop. The core desktop has been built, and is up and running, although there's still work before these packages will b

Policy to accept new packages? (was: Re: [ITP] shellsupport-1.2.4-1)

2004-10-17 Thread Jari Aalto+mail.linux
* Sun 2004-10-10 Christopher Faylor | On Sun, Oct 10, 2004 at 09:41:43PM +0200, Reini Urban wrote: | | >I want to maintain shellsupport, a simple (bourne) shell scripting | >support helper. It is a commandline C program that provides those | >features I miss when writing portable shell scripts,

Re: don't use AC_FUNC_MMAP, use AC_CHECK_FUNCS(mmap) instead.

2004-10-17 Thread Gerrit P. Haase
Yaakov Selkowitz wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Gerrit P. Haase wrote: |> AC_CHECK_FUNCS(mmap) issues this: |> checking for mmap... yes |> |> This is what I will using now for all the GNOME packages, there are |> several packages affected, so far I know of: |> - libgtop |> - g