Bug#678338: ITP: konoha -- interpreter of statically-typed scripting language Konoha

2012-06-21 Thread Miles Bader
Tadaki SAKAI stadaki@gmail.com writes: It guaranteed a smooth coding environment and ease of use. That sentence seems pretty content-free... why not just leave it out of the description? -miles -- Cannon, n. An instrument employed in the rectification of national boundaries. -- To

Bug#668556: ITP: dparser -- a scannerless GLR parser generator

2012-04-14 Thread Miles Bader
Adam Borowski kilob...@angband.pl writes: On Sat, Apr 14, 2012 at 11:22:06AM +0200, Jakub Wilk wrote: GLR means Generalized Left-to-right Rightmost deviation parser or maybe Generalized LR parser. EBNF is the Extended Backus–Naur Form. Acronyms like these - i.e. LL, LL(k), SLR, LALR - are

Bug#609221: ITP: PyTyle2 -- PyTyle2 is an automatic and manual on-demand tiling manager

2011-01-08 Thread Miles Bader
WTF do people keep naming packages after their implementation language like this (when it seems largely irrelevant)...? -Miles -- Cynic, n. A blackguard whose faulty vision sees things as they are, not as they ought to be. Hence the custom among the Scythians of plucking out a cynic's eyes to

Bug#493109: ITP: json-static -- JSON validator and converter for OCaml

2008-08-03 Thread Miles Bader
Shouldn't the package name include ocaml somewhere? Doesn't ocaml have some sort of standard package/library package-naming convention? Something like this is pretty clearly language specific (many languages have json i/o libraries). Including ocaml in the package name would both be much more

Bug#455730: ITP: lua-peg -- Parsing Expression Grammars For Lua

2007-12-12 Thread Miles Bader
Stefano Zacchiroli [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I think it's going to cause a lot of confusion if you call this package lua-peg -- _everybody_ knows it as lpeg... Hence, I guess, the proposed name would be lua-lpeg, right? That seems best... The crucial thing, I think, is that somebody

Bug#315903: ITP: evilfinder -- proves that any given subject is evil

2005-06-27 Thread Miles Bader
David Pashley [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Do we really need this in the archive? Can we not add this to another package under games? Er, why? This sounds like a great utility, it seems silly and artificial to force it to be merged unless there's already a very similar package to which it would

Bug#198957: ITP: email -- Send email from command line, either via MTA or SMTP, with optional encryption

2003-06-30 Thread Miles Bader
Lukas Geyer [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I am not really sure that email satisfies this criterion. Maintaining non-free packages is a hassle, it might be easier to write a free replacement in the time saved by messing around with non-free packages and getting special Debian redistribution

Bug#88889: RFP: crawl -- Dungeon Crawl

2001-03-07 Thread Miles Bader
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Description: Crawl is a fun game in the grand tradition of games like Rogue, Hack and Moria. Your objective is to travel deep into a subterranean cave complex and retrieve the Orb of Zot, which is guarded by many horrible and hideous creatures.