Blobthrowers thread (RE: HEADS-UP: Modular X11 (ALL maintainers, please read))

2006-04-19 Thread Hannu E K Nevalainen
at 08:08:31PM +0200, Hannu E K Nevalainen wrote: Sorry for writing in a shorthand style. Please fill in the missing words of type please... And as a precaution; in case CGF happens to read this and finds anything upsetting: No personal offense intended! ;-) Remember; I would NOT be here writing

RE: HEADS-UP: Modular X11 (ALL maintainers, please read)

2006-04-18 Thread Hannu E K Nevalainen
Sorry for writing in a shorthand style. Please fill in the missing words of type please... And as a precaution; in case CGF happens to read this and finds anything upsetting: No personal offense intended! ;-) Remember; I would NOT be here writing this unless I lkied cygwin a lot. In the

RE: RFC: [ITP] Installation Profiles packages

2005-11-10 Thread Hannu E K Nevalainen
Igor wrote: SNIP How about just .INSTALLATION-PROFILES? Why have more than one category here? Ok ...or just .PROFILES then? (KISS?) In combination w explaining words somewhere around the chooser: Use (one) choice(s) from the .PROFILE group to slant your cygwin installation against a specific

RE: RFC: [ITP] Installation Profiles packages

2005-11-10 Thread Hannu E K Nevalainen
Igor wrote: On Thu, 10 Nov 2005, Hannu E K Nevalainen wrote: Igor wrote: SNIP How about just .INSTALLATION-PROFILES? Why have more than one category here? Ok ...or just .PROFILES then? (KISS?) http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin-apps/2005-11/msg00064.html. Yes :-] , but with my addition, which

RE: RFC: [ITP] Installation Profiles packages

2005-11-09 Thread Hannu E K Nevalainen
on Wednesday, November 09, 2005 11:11 AM [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: (Hmm, outlook quotefix is better than nothing, but optimal) SNIP Therefore I'd like to propose an all uppercase name for this category. DEFAULT-PROFILES Hmm... default has little to do with packages imho, or?

RE: setup size prefs

2004-11-06 Thread Hannu E K Nevalainen
Brian D. AKA [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hannu E K Nevalainen wrote: Windows style isn't always the best. Cygwin isn't much Windows in other ways, why should it be in this regard? Inventing things to get around windows design is poor practice. When the operating system provides well-defined

RE: setup size prefs

2004-11-05 Thread Hannu E K Nevalainen
run _the first time_. Brian /Hannu E K Nevalainen, B.Sc. EE Microcomputer systems--72-- ** mailing list preference; please keep replies on list ** -- printf(LocalTime: UTC+%02d\n,(DST)? 2:1); -- --END OF MESSAGE--

RE: setup size prefs

2004-11-04 Thread Hannu E K Nevalainen
. /Hannu E K Nevalainen, B.Sc. EE Microcomputer systems--72-- ** mailing list preference; please keep replies on list ** -- printf(LocalTime: UTC+%02d\n,(DST)? 2:1); -- --END OF MESSAGE--

RE: generic build script 'help' patch

2004-10-13 Thread Hannu E K Nevalainen
Igor wrote: On Mon, 11 Oct 2004, Hannu E K Nevalainen wrote: Igor: I hacked around some, and ended up short of my intentions; in hope it helps some I've *EDITED down* my changes to the attached patch. Feel free to do with it whatever you like. (Non copyrighted material, cgf BEWARE

RE: Fixes to allow command line options to properly work

2004-10-11 Thread Hannu E K Nevalainen
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sat, 9 Oct 2004, Hannu E K Nevalainen wrote: Amir Ebrahimi wrote on Saturday, October 09, 2004 3:07 AM : I have attached my patch file and ChangeLog for review. Amir, please review your patch. The attched thing seems very odd. Huh? I can't see off-hand

RE: Fixes to allow command line options to properly work

2004-10-11 Thread Hannu E K Nevalainen
initially though :-P. See my reply to Igor. /Hannu E K Nevalainen, B.Sc. EE Microcomputer systems--72-- ** mailing list preference; please keep replies on list ** -- printf(LocalTime: UTC+%02d\n,(DST)? 2:1); -- --END OF MESSAGE--

RE: Fixes to allow command line options to properly work

2004-10-09 Thread Hannu E K Nevalainen
Amir Ebrahimi wrote on Saturday, October 09, 2004 3:07 AM : I have attached my patch file and ChangeLog for review. Amir, please review your patch. The attched thing seems very odd. /Hannu E K Nevalainen, B.Sc. EE Microcomputer systems--72-- ** mailing list preference; please keep

RE: dodgy chere (aka cygwin prompt here) feature

2004-10-06 Thread Hannu E K Nevalainen
if something nasty happens to it? Will it always be readable? 3. Should we care if someones passwd says user:...:/bin/rm -f *; ? Use the equivalent of '-f' in bash? if [ -f ... ] ;then RUN ; else BAD ;fi (man bash) Comments appreciated. /Hannu E K Nevalainen, B.Sc. EE Microcomputer systems