Re: Time to rewrite dpkg IN IDL! :)

1999-05-21 Thread Daniel James Patterson
On Fri, May 21, 1999 at 08:26:00AM +1000, Hamish Moffatt wrote: Besides, any advantage in a nice OO design is lost by implementing it in C++! There is no need to do it in C++. My whole point is that I think an OO methodology would work well in this case simply due to the maintainability

Re: Time to rewrite dpkg IN IDL! :)

1999-05-21 Thread Daniel James Patterson
On Thu, May 20, 1999 at 01:20:20AM -0700, Aaron Van Couwenberghe wrote: Argo-UML. It's a UML design tool, designed to export Java; however, its nature makes it useful for any (distributed or otherwise) OO design project. I don't have a URL with me.

Re: Time to rewrite dpkg IN IDL! :)

1999-05-20 Thread Daniel James Patterson
On Thu, May 20, 1999 at 02:50:38AM -0700, Chris Waters wrote: I think an interesting approach would be to use CORBA. Make dpkg into a networkable server for polymorphic package objects! G'wan, I dare ya! :-) I don't see why not. Software is becomming more and more complex, people are

Re: Time to rewrite dpkg IN IDL! :)

1999-05-20 Thread Daniel James Patterson
On Thu, May 20, 1999 at 08:44:39PM +1000, Anthony Towns wrote: Speaking of baser instincts, Rationale Rose isn't free software, is it? Are there any nice (or even not-nice) OO design tools that are? No unfortunatley it isnt. There is a solaris version, which is a bad port of the win32

Re: Time to rewrite dpkg IN IDL! :)

1999-05-20 Thread Daniel James Patterson
On Thu, May 20, 1999 at 09:14:26PM +1000, Hamish Moffatt wrote: How about it's complete overkill? I don't think so. Yes you can write maintainable code with plain C, but with the number of developers moving in and out of Debian, I think that a decent OO approach for core software could make it

ITP: squirm

1999-05-13 Thread Daniel James Patterson
Squirm is a URL redirector for squid. It provides a fast means for squid to modify URLs according to a set rule that the administrator applies. It is useful for things like a) redirecting requests for common files to internal cached copies b) restricting access to URLS and redirecting

Re: ITP: squirm

1999-05-13 Thread Daniel James Patterson
On Thu, May 13, 1999 at 09:10:54AM +1000, Daniel James Patterson wrote: Squirm is a URL redirector for squid. It provides a fast means for squid to modify URLs according to a set rule that the administrator applies. Oh, I forgot to mention that it's under the GPL and you can look

Re: KDE gone, Linux next ?

1998-10-13 Thread Daniel James Patterson
On Tue, Oct 13, 1998 at 01:00:52PM +0200, Martin Schulze wrote: This won't be the case for regular machines. It might be the case for boxes that use crappy hardware where the manufacturer holds back the specs and doesn't allow development of free drivers. I can picture manufacturers who