Re: tinycore - Used to be [dev] I'm back

2013-10-22 Thread Jens Staal
On Monday 21 October 2013 14:43:16 Carlos Torres wrote: On Mon, Oct 21, 2013 at 1:15 PM, hiro 23h...@gmail.com wrote: Yeah, tinycore's biggest failure is that it's too difficult to find the right man pages of certain packages. I knew tinycore wouldn't have docs included, they say so in the

[dev] misc projects

2013-10-22 Thread Sylvain BERTRAND
Hi, I may have some projects of interests for people concerned with suckless.org philosophy: http://code.google.com/p/charfbuzz/ : As you may know, the GTK+ stack has a unicode layout engine called pango, which was made hard dependent on harfbuzz, a c++ component. To keep GTK+ in the C realm and

[dev] TDD

2013-10-22 Thread Szymon Olewniczak
Hi, what is your opinion about TDD? Is it suckles or not? Do you have any experience with this kind of development? Do TDD in C make any sense? BR, Szymon

Re: [dev] TDD

2013-10-22 Thread Chris Down
On 2013-10-22 20:06, Szymon Olewniczak wrote: what is your opinion about TDD? Is it suckles or not? Do you have any experience with this kind of development? Do TDD in C make any sense? In my experience, it does not work. It inhibits me from being able to creatively design a program and solve

Re: [dev] TDD

2013-10-22 Thread FRIGN
On Tue, 22 Oct 2013 20:06:48 +0200 Szymon Olewniczak szymon.olewnic...@rid.pl wrote: Hi, what is your opinion about TDD? Is it suckles or not? Do you have any experience with this kind of development? Do TDD in C make any sense? BR, Szymon Hey Szymon, I guess you're speaking of Test

Re: [dev] TDD

2013-10-22 Thread Pierre Chapuis
what is your opinion about TDD? Is it suckles or not? Do you have any experience with this kind of development? Having a comprehensive unit testing suite to help you find mistakes faster and avoid regressions is usually a good idea, do it. TDD (as in Test Driven Development / Design) is a

Re: [dev] [dwm] Multi-seat with dwm in a single X server

2013-10-22 Thread Raimundo Martins
Can you share your patches, please? I would also be very interested in your specific setup and if you had to tweak e.g. xorg configuration. This patch should do it. It's not exactly what I use, but it compiles, and appears to have the same behaviour. The only difference (related to this)

Re: [dev] misc projects

2013-10-22 Thread Mihail Zenkov
2013/10/22, Sylvain BERTRAND sylw...@legeek.net: Hi, I may have some projects of interests for people concerned with suckless.org philosophy: http://code.google.com/p/charfbuzz/ : As you may know, the GTK+ stack has a unicode layout engine called pango, which was made hard dependent on

Re: [dev] [dwm] Multi-seat with dwm in a single X server

2013-10-22 Thread Raimundo Martins
Oh, a couple of warnings: Don't start dmenu without patching it to support specific input devices or without any Virtual Core device with slaves or you won't control it. I can propose a patch later, if someone wants it. There is a problem with some programs in detecting some things e.g.

Re: [dev] Some thoughts about XML

2013-10-22 Thread Mihail Zenkov
2013/10/21, hiro 23h...@gmail.com: It seems like some subscribers haven't read the bible of suckless yet. http://harmful.cat-v.org/software/ and http://harmful.cat-v.org/software/xml/ It not mention good xml alternative: TOML https://github.com/mojombo/toml

Re: [dev] Some thoughts about XML

2013-10-22 Thread Alexander S.
2013/10/23 Mihail Zenkov mihail.zen...@gmail.com: 2013/10/21, hiro 23h...@gmail.com: It seems like some subscribers haven't read the bible of suckless yet. http://harmful.cat-v.org/software/ and http://harmful.cat-v.org/software/xml/ It not mention good xml alternative: TOML

Re: [dev] Some thoughts about XML

2013-10-22 Thread Thorsten Glaser
Mihail Zenkov dixit: It not mention good xml alternative: TOML Thank gods the time of Windows 3.x *.ini files is long gone. bye, //mirabilos -- diogenese Beware of ritual lest you forget the meaning behind it. igli yeah but it means if you really care about something, don't ritualise it,

Re: [dev] misc projects

2013-10-22 Thread Sylvain BERTRAND
I dislike initramfs conception - it make system more complicated. For mount root on usb storage I use attached patch. With it you can pass label to kernel parameters. Example: root=LABEL=root_usb With early userspace, you would load the root filesystem modules first then mount the real root.

Re: tinycore - Used to be [dev] I'm back

2013-10-22 Thread Carlos Torres
On Tue, Oct 22, 2013 at 3:23 AM, Jens Staal staal1...@gmail.com wrote: On Monday 21 October 2013 14:43:16 Carlos Torres wrote: so then...on a separate topic is stali meant to be a distro that sucks at being extensible? or is it meant to be a distro thats simple, lean and yet extensible. If I