Bug#1027976: ITP: libcpucycles -- Microlibrary for counting CPU cycles

2023-01-05 Thread Nick Black (Public gmail account)
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: nick black X-Debbugs-Cc: debian-de...@lists.debian.org, dankamong...@gmail.com * Package name: libcpucycles Version : 20230105 Upstream Contact: Daniel J. Bernstein * URL : https://cpucycles.cr.yp.to/download.html * License

Bug#1024089: ITP: accel-config -- Utility for configuring the DSA subsystem for Linux

2022-11-14 Thread nick black
Can I assist you in any way at the moment? -- nick black -=- https://www.nick-black.com to make an apple pie from scratch, you need first invent a universe. signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Bug#1004919: ITP: kmscon -- Simple terminal emulator based on Kernel Mode Setting

2022-02-05 Thread nick black
ahh, rereading your original ITP, i see you know all about the fdo situation. good deal =]. i just killed my fork, and am going to submit a PR to Aetf's fork. signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Bug#1004919: ITP: kmscon -- Simple terminal emulator based on Kernel Mode Setting

2022-02-05 Thread nick black
also, there is a kmscon repo under the auspices of the freedesktop.org organization. i talked to the original author about removing that if he wasn't going to be taking the project forward, but it didn't go anywhere. if someone's really picking kmscon up, they might want to go talk to the fdo peopl

Bug#1004919: ITP: kmscon -- Simple terminal emulator based on Kernel Mode Setting

2022-02-05 Thread nick black
indeed, the cursor location report fix is only on a branch. i'll go ahead and submit it to this other fork, and rebase mine off of theirs. thank you likewise for bringing this to my attention! i'm glad to see kmscon getting some love. i'm the maintainer and upstream author of Notcurses, and kmscon

Bug#1004919: ITP: kmscon -- Simple terminal emulator based on Kernel Mode Setting

2022-02-04 Thread nick black
con if the other fork is more active, i'm happy to fold my changes into it, but they definitely ought go in there. the most important thing i recall doing was fixing the cursor location report to use the proper order for coordinates. -- nick black -=- https://www.nick-black.com to make an

Bug#1002724: ITP: openfec -- Forward Error Correction codes

2021-12-28 Thread Nick Black (Public gmail account)
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: "Nick Black (Public gmail account)" X-Debbugs-Cc: debian-de...@lists.debian.org, dankamong...@gmail.com Package name: openfec Version : 1.4.2.4 Upstream Author : Victor Gaydov et al URL : http://www.example.org/

Bug#1002056: ITP: zlib-ng -- optimized zlib compression library

2021-12-20 Thread nick black
not that i expect you to have run extensive benchmarks or anything, but how do you feel this compares to libdeflate? the few comparisons i've seen suggest that they are (or at least were) pretty much a wash, performance-wise.

Bug#968843: RFH: asciio -- dynamically create ASCII charts and graphs with GTK+2

2021-02-11 Thread Nick Black
ok, i took a closer look at things, and realize you don't need a new *backend*, but a new *gui frontend*. alas, my suggestion would be of no help in this case. good luck finding a new upstream author! =]

Bug#982087: ITP: timg -- terminal image and video viewer

2021-02-06 Thread Nick Black
ind that it is both faster and higher quality than timg--if your experiments contradict mine, please do let me know (as the upstream author of Notcurses)! -- nick black -=- https://www.nick-black.com to make an apple pie from scratch, you need first invent a universe.

Bug#973916: ITP: rust-libc-print -- Support for println and eprintln in a no_std context

2020-11-07 Thread Nick Black (Public gmail account)
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: "Nick Black" X-Debbugs-Cc: debian-de...@lists.debian.org, dankamong...@gmail.com * Package name: rust-libc-print Version : 0.1.14 Upstream Author : Matt Mastracci * URL : https://github.com/mmastrac/rust-libc-print

Bug#972542: ITP: librust-libnotcurses-sys-dev -- Character graphics and TUI library (Rust development)

2020-10-19 Thread Nick Black (Public gmail account)
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: "Nick Black (Public gmail account)" X-Debbugs-Cc: debian-de...@lists.debian.org * Package name: librust-libnotcurses-sys-dev Version : 2.0.1 Upstream Author : Nick Black * URL : https://nick-black.com/dankwiki

Bug#700060: ITP: ITP: growlight -- Disk manipulation and system preparation tool -- Disk manipulation and system preparation tool

2020-10-03 Thread Nick Black
as noted in bug #969408, pkern has graciously sponsored an upload into the NEW queue, and growlight 1.2.13 will hopefully find favor with the FTP Masters. if so, this will successfully close a seven-year-old bug! -- nick black -=- https://www.nick-black.com to make an apple pie from scratch

Bug#968843: RFH: asciio -- dynamically create ASCII charts and graphs with GTK+2

2020-08-22 Thread Nick Black
mes-per-second graph is maintained throughout the demo: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b4lmMADP1lA I'm the upstream author, and would be happy to help you with anything you're trying to accomplish, or work desired features into the development plan. -- nick black -=- https://www.nick-bl

Bug#950492: Acknowledgement (ITP: notcurses -- Character-mode graphics and TUI library)

2020-02-12 Thread Nick Black
I have uploaded version 1.1.8-1: https://mentors.debian.net/package/notcurses -- nick black -=- https://www.nick-black.com to make an apple pie from scratch, you need first invent a universe.

Bug#950492: ITP: notcurses -- Character-mode graphics and TUI library

2020-02-03 Thread Nick Black
unlike so many C libraries of late, also has a complete set of man pages: https://nick-black.com/notcurses/ They're of course present in the -dev package. -- nick black -=- https://www.nick-black.com to make an apple pie from scratch, you need first invent a universe.

Bug#950492: ITP: notcurses -- Character-mode graphics and TUI library

2020-02-03 Thread Nick Black
devices, and any testing you can perform on them would be invaluable to me :D. i will eagerly move to fix problems you run into. so long as you're not providing supraASCII characters for output, you needn't worry about them being emitted. -- nick black -=- https://www.nick-black.com to m

Bug#950492: ITP: notcurses -- Character-mode graphics and TUI library

2020-02-03 Thread Nick Black
erminfo and provide a functional implementation on non-ANSI terminals? > (eg, IBM3151, etc) > > > On Sun, Feb 02 2020, Nick Black wrote: > > > Package: wnpp > > Severity: wishlist > > Owner: Nick Black > > > > * Package name : notcurse

Bug#950492: ITP: notcurses -- Character-mode graphics and TUI library

2020-02-02 Thread Nick Black
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Nick Black * Package name: notcurses Version : 1.1.4 Upstream Author : Nick Black * URL : https://nick-black.com/dankwiki/index.php/notcurses * License : Apache-2.0 Programming Lang: C, C++, Python Description

Bug#703366: RFH: apt-file -- search for files within Debian packages (command-line interface)

2013-03-25 Thread Nick Black
as they're referenced. Thus it's not how much we have mmap()d (which can be large, equivalent to the sum of the compressed files plus dynamic state). Our dynamic state per thread is limited, however, so we'll never be say trying to uncompress 256MB of text (this would be bad for para

Bug#703366: RFH: apt-file -- search for files within Debian packages (command-line interface)

2013-03-25 Thread Nick Black
i ought point out here that raptorial-file does not have "update" or "purge" functionality. it seems to me that if the user has installed apt-file or some equivalent, they're interested in the contents of Contents files, and thus they ought be downloaded with apt updates. if they have not installed

Bug#703366: RFH: apt-file -- search for files within Debian packages (command-line interface)

2013-03-25 Thread Nick Black
So, as I posted to deity/debdev/derivatives last evening, apt-file has been rewritten as raptorial-file. On typical queries on my quadcore, raptorial-file() is about ~50% the runtime of apt-file(), a speedup of between 1.5x and 2x. For pathological queries, raptorial-file() is about ~3% the runtim

Bug#703366: RFH: apt-file -- search for files within Debian packages (command-line interface)

2013-03-21 Thread Nick Black
tunity, especially after the somewhat aggressive way I launched this project. I think we're all on the same page, for at least the short term. -- nick black http://www.sprezzatech.com -- unix and hpc consulting to make an apple pie from scratch, you need first invent a universe. -- To

Bug#703366: apt-file assistance

2013-03-20 Thread nick black
Stefan, I'd be interested in helping. I'm not a DD, but I am the developer of "raptorial", an APT clone. I was already planning on starting in on the apt-file component, so this is fortuitous. -- nick black http://www.sprezzatech.com -- unix and hpc consulting to ma

Bug#700060: ITP: ITP: growlight -- Disk manipulation and system preparation tool -- Disk manipulation and system preparation tool

2013-02-07 Thread Nick Black
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Nick Black * Package name: growlight -- Disk manipulation and system preparation tool Version : 1.0.4.5 Upstream Author : Nick Black * URL : http://nick-black.com/dankwiki/index.php/Growlight * License : GPL

Bug#671385: ITP: omphalos -- Network enumeration and domination

2012-05-03 Thread nick black
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: nick black * Package name: omphalos Version : 0.99.0 Upstream Author : Nick Black * URL : http://dank.qemfd.net/dankwiki/index.php/Omphalos * License : GPL Programming Lang: C Description : Network enumeration