Re: [dev] getting rid of cmake builds

2023-09-23 Thread Laslo Hunhold
On Fri, 22 Sep 2023 17:08:15 +0200 Mattias Andrée wrote: Dear Mattias, > You can used make to run ./configure automatically, all you need to > do is simply rename Makefile to makefile.in, let ./configure run `ln > -s makefile.in makefile` and create a new file named Makefile > containing: > >

Re: [dev] Am I doing this right?

2023-07-01 Thread Laslo Hunhold
On Sat, 1 Jul 2023 18:15:17 +0300 Nikita Krasnov wrote: Dear Nikita, > Is this message – an equivalent of a new forum topic or thread? Does > anyone even see this? Sorry, first time having conversations this > way. yes, welcome to this mailing list! > Also, is hard-wrapping lines at 80

Re: [dev] Servers with TLS support

2023-05-07 Thread Laslo Hunhold
On Sun, 7 May 2023 22:09:23 +0200 (CEST) Sagar Acharya wrote: Dear Sagar, > I checked out the recommended webservers under rocks subpage but all > of them lack TLS support. Merecat does have it's support but it needs > systemd which my host system does not have. mini_httpd doesn't > compile.

Re: [dev] [license] gpl issues

2023-05-06 Thread Laslo Hunhold
On Sat, 6 May 2023 10:56:23 +0200 Страхиња Радић wrote: > [1]: https://www.gnu.org/licenses/license-list.html > [2]: https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/philosophy.html > [3]: https://www.gnu.org/licenses/why-not-lgpl.html > [4]: https://www.gnu.org/licenses/rms-why-gplv3.html Thank you for your

Re: [dev] Using ii to connect to libera

2023-04-20 Thread Laslo Hunhold
On Thu, 20 Apr 2023 10:41:59 +0200 (CEST) Sagar Acharya wrote: Dear Sagar, > Can you please help me with a script to use ii to connect to libera? > I have tried a lot but I'm unable to make progress. if you have any hope of getting help with this, you should provide more information. What

Re: [dev] [DEV][Quark] Big problem

2023-02-26 Thread Laslo Hunhold
On Sun, 26 Feb 2023 14:02:48 +0100 Thomas Oltmann wrote: Dear Thomas, > Looks to me like your version of quark is actually a lot newer than > 2020; Old versions of quark did not print that "dropped" message. > > Probably only tangentially related, > but I reported a bug in the connection

Re: [dev] bump copyright years?

2023-02-08 Thread Laslo Hunhold
On Wed, 8 Feb 2023 21:23:45 + Al wrote: Dear Al, > Then again, I believe all suckless development is entirely done with > Git these days. So surely the datetime information recorded in each > commit makes the question moot? > > If for no other reason, I would vote for dropping the year

Re: [dev] [dwm] [st] benefits (or not) of -march=x86-64-v3 and gcc optimizations

2023-02-07 Thread Laslo Hunhold
On Tue, 7 Feb 2023 10:30:24 +0200 Κρακ Άουτ wrote: Dear Κρακ, > I have compiled dwm & st using -march=x86-64-v3 (tried > -march=x86-64-v2 also). To be honest they are both (dwm & st) fast > and snappy with their default configuration and I cannot spot any > difference when compiled with

Re: [dev] [st] terminfo entries won't get deleted

2023-02-03 Thread Laslo Hunhold
On Thu, 02 Feb 2023 22:33:55 + danin-sac wrote: > after looking in the Makefile I saw that the terminfo entries > wouldn't get deleted if you uninstall the program. Is there a > specific reason for that? John 13:7[0] [0]:https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=John%2013%3A7=KJV

Re: [dev] [sbase] should tar preserve hard links info

2023-01-31 Thread Laslo Hunhold
On Tue, 31 Jan 2023 14:05:05 +0100 (CET) Andrea Calligaris wrote: Dear Andrea, > Do you think it should? > > I'm not interested in a short-term implementation, I'm more > interested if you think that it should, or if you have an opinion > against it. Im my opinion it should, because someone may

Re: [dev] Commandline Email Advice Request

2022-11-25 Thread Laslo Hunhold
On Thu, 24 Nov 2022 12:42:08 -0700 Michael Partridge wrote: Dear Michael, > Happy Thanksgiving! thanks, to you as well! > I'm having trouble using `git --send-email` to send a patch in. > > I am trying to use this email address (mcp...@nau.edu) with the > following settings in my global

Re: [dev] Some questions on communication suckless style

2022-10-21 Thread Laslo Hunhold
On Fri, 21 Oct 2022 12:58:47 -0500 fernandoreyesavila3 wrote: Dear Fernando, > Could you please give me some more details on bringing the ratox > project to the new api. I would be happy to contribute however I have > little programming knowledge. I think that this constitutes a pretty

Re: [dev] Some questions on communication suckless style

2022-10-18 Thread Laslo Hunhold
On Wed, 19 Oct 2022 00:49:57 + Rodrigo Martins wrote: Dear Rodrigo, > toxic is a curses command line interface for the tox protocol. With > it you can do group audio calls and one on one video calls. toxic > doesn't (yet?) let you share your screen, but other tox clients, like > qtox, do. >

Re: [dev] macOS tester needed for libgrapheme

2022-10-12 Thread Laslo Hunhold
On Wed, 12 Oct 2022 10:52:48 + sek...@posteo.se wrote: Dear Sekret, > Works as expected. I've attached the config.mk how it looks after > running ./configure. perfect, thank you very much! > Have you sorted out the problem that showed up on my Macbook Air M1? The issue you mentioned is

Re: [dev] [libgrapheme] version 2.0.0 release

2022-10-11 Thread Laslo Hunhold
On Thu, 06 Oct 2022 21:46:16 + "Hadrien Lacour" wrote: Dear Hadrien, > Hurray, I'll probably try it soon, as I was waiting for case > conversion to happen. I'm glad to hear that! Yes, it was also one of my biggest goals. > Too bad I still need to roll my theoretically incorrect but de

Re: [dev] macOS tester needed for libgrapheme

2022-10-11 Thread Laslo Hunhold
On Sun, 9 Oct 2022 13:42:19 + sek...@posteo.se wrote: Dear Sekret, > I've run it on a MacBook Air (M1, 2022) with an Apple M1 chip. > > % ls /usr/local/lib/libgrapheme* > /usr/local/lib/libgrapheme.2.dylib /usr/local/lib/libgrapheme.a > > The build process is attached and also contains

Re: [dev] macOS tester needed for libgrapheme

2022-10-09 Thread Laslo Hunhold
On Sun, 9 Oct 2022 11:24:43 +0300 Anton Konyahin wrote: Dear Anton, > I have macOS 12.6 (Monterey) on MacBook. All unit test passed, > instalation succesful. I have only warning about -s option: > > ld: warning: option -s is obsolete and being ignored > > Example from site compiled and

Re: [dev] macOS tester needed for libgrapheme

2022-10-09 Thread Laslo Hunhold
On Sun, 9 Oct 2022 09:57:49 +0200 simon wrote: Dear Simon, > Following the instructions worked for me on macOS 12.6. > > ls /usr/local/lib/libgrapheme* gives the following: > /usr/local/lib/libgrapheme.2.dylib /usr/local/lib/libgrapheme.a > > The example compiled successfully and the output

[dev] macOS tester needed for libgrapheme

2022-10-08 Thread Laslo Hunhold
Hello fellow hackers, does anyone have access to a machine running the latest macOS to test if the library installation for libgrapheme works properly? It wouldn't take much time and amount to the following steps: 1. Clone libgrapheme via git clone

[dev] [libgrapheme] version 2.0.0 release

2022-10-06 Thread Laslo Hunhold
-manual comes with an example and the usage should be more or less obvious. With best regards Laslo Hunhold [0]: https://libs.suckless.org/libgrapheme [1]: https://dl.suckless.org/libgrapheme/libgrapheme-2.0.0.tar.gz [2]: https://semver.org/

Re: [dev] [libgrapheme] Some questions about libgrapheme

2022-09-02 Thread Laslo Hunhold
On Thu, 01 Sep 2022 21:43:06 -0300 atrtar...@cock.li wrote: Dear atrtarget, thanks for reaching out! > libgrapheme looks really useful, but I still don't get some things > from it. For example, if I need to get back one grapheme, how should > I do it since there's no

Re: [dev] [tabbed] utf8 characters not displayed in tabs

2022-08-30 Thread Laslo Hunhold
On Tue, 30 Aug 2022 22:23:44 +0600 NRK wrote: Dear NRK, > The "proper" way (IMO) would be to build up a list of fonts which > would be capable of representing as many code-points available in the > system *right at startup* - instead of checking each unknown > code-point as we go. > > This way

Re: [dev] Replace ranlib(1) calls?

2022-08-03 Thread Laslo Hunhold
On Wed, 3 Aug 2022 16:38:14 +0200 Markus Wichmann wrote: Dear Markus, thanks for sharing your thoughts! > That design would afford some flexibility to the whole business: ar > doesn't need to know the object file format and ranlib doesn't need to > know the ar file format. I have one question

Re: [dev] Replace ranlib(1) calls?

2022-08-03 Thread Laslo Hunhold
On Mon, 1 Aug 2022 11:32:20 +0200 "Roberto E. Vargas Caballero" wrote: Dear Roberto, > There is a big important reason why scc ar does not generates a link > table, because then ar can handle any type of files, because ar is > just an archiver. Making ar(1) to generate symbol tables means that

Re: [dev] Replace ranlib(1) calls?

2022-08-03 Thread Laslo Hunhold
On Mon, 1 Aug 2022 11:21:19 +0200 "Roberto E. Vargas Caballero" wrote: Dear Roberto, > -std=c99 is not part of any standard and our Makefiles are full of > them. as(1), ld(1), and cc(1) are not part of POSIX and we keep using > them. Again, Please stop doing this kind of patches and center in >

Re: [dev] zuccless.org

2022-07-31 Thread Laslo Hunhold
On Sun, 31 Jul 2022 01:45:39 +0200 Christoph Lohmann <2...@r-36.net> wrote: Dear Christoph, > currently we are at brcon2022 in Belgrade, smoking meats and having > fun. We decided to make it real: > > http://www.zuccless.org > > Come and join the future of meat! nice one! The link only

Re: [dev] Replace ranlib(1) calls?

2022-07-30 Thread Laslo Hunhold
On Wed, 20 Jul 2022 12:23:01 + Tom Schwindl wrote: Dear Tom, > I've noticed that we use the non-standard ranlib(1) program to create > symbol tables for archives created by ar(1). This affects, as far as > I can tell, every creation of static libraries we have. > > ranlib(1) is, in fact,

Re: [dev] Replace ranlib(1) calls?

2022-07-30 Thread Laslo Hunhold
On Sat, 23 Jul 2022 23:06:49 + Tom Schwindl wrote: Dear Tom, > If a system says it's POSIX compliant, we can assume that the `-s' > option exists, but there is no standard which tells us whether > ranlib(1) is available or not. while I agree with your point in general, keep in mind that

Re: [dev] Replace ranlib(1) calls?

2022-07-30 Thread Laslo Hunhold
On Wed, 20 Jul 2022 12:23:01 + Tom Schwindl wrote: Dear Tom, > I've noticed that we use the non-standard ranlib(1) program to create > symbol tables for archives created by ar(1). This affects, as far as > I can tell, every creation of static libraries we have. > > ranlib(1) is, in fact,

Re: [dev] Replace ranlib(1) calls?

2022-07-30 Thread Laslo Hunhold
On Sat, 23 Jul 2022 23:06:49 + Tom Schwindl wrote: Dear Tom, > If a system says it's POSIX compliant, we can assume that the `-s' > option exists, but there is no standard which tells us whether > ranlib(1) is available or not. while I agree with your point in general, keep in mind that

Re: [dev] Suckless CMatrix clone

2022-06-17 Thread Laslo Hunhold
On Tue, 31 May 2022 08:35:11 -0400 LM wrote: Dear LM, > On Mon, May 30, 2022 at 11:33 AM Laslo Hunhold wrote: > > What functions do you need in the context of Tuxmath? > > From what I remember, it just needs to figure out where to do a clean > break for text wrapping with

Re: [dev] Suckless CMatrix clone

2022-05-30 Thread Laslo Hunhold
On Mon, 30 May 2022 07:33:24 -0400 LM wrote: Dear LM, > Thanks for the reviews. That's really helpful to know. As mentioned, > I haven't tried them myself. you're welcome! > That looks really useful. I noticed the break testing in libgrapheme. > Is it possible to use this as a replacement

Re: [dev] Suckless CMatrix clone

2022-05-30 Thread Laslo Hunhold
On Sun, 29 May 2022 13:48:49 -0400 LM wrote: Dear LM, > I like that point. Not a fan of glib and I try to avoid software > that uses it. > > Don't know how good they are, but I've run across several lighter > utf-8 C libraries: > https://github.com/cls/libutf >

Re: [dev] Regarding dwm and st logo being removed

2022-04-28 Thread Laslo Hunhold
On Thu, 28 Apr 2022 18:14:14 +0200 Hiltjo Posthuma wrote: Dear Hiltjo, > Sure I don't mind you added them back. > With the inverted colors they are visible here. alright, cool. :) Thanks also for adding the dark theme. With best regards Laslo

Re: [dev] Regarding dwm and st logo being removed

2022-04-28 Thread Laslo Hunhold
On Thu, 28 Apr 2022 09:38:09 +0200 Страхиња Радић wrote: Dear Страхиња, > This can be remedied with CSS which applies white background to logos > (perhaps with some padding: to also give a bit of a > border). > > In my opinion, dark mode is unnecessary and favored by mainstream > "webdevs".

Re: [dev] Regarding dwm and st logo being removed

2022-04-28 Thread Laslo Hunhold
On Thu, 28 Apr 2022 13:53:54 +0600 NRK wrote: Dear NRK, > Ah, that makes sense. But wouldn't it make sense to remove the logos > from *all* are projects then? > > Also since the logos are just svgs, I *think* it should be possible to > override the color of the "fill" dynmaically via css (?)

Re: [dev] Regarding dwm and st logo being removed

2022-04-28 Thread Laslo Hunhold
On Thu, 28 Apr 2022 08:34:36 +0600 NRK wrote: Dear NRK, > Recently noticed that the dwm and st logo was removed from their > homepages[0][1]. > > I was wondering if there's any specific reason for that, or if there's > plan for a new logo(s)? > > I atleast really liked the current logos, as

Re: [dev] Some direction with my project

2022-04-15 Thread Laslo Hunhold
(put this stuff in README), Makefile.am, Makefile.in, NEWS (no one cares), README.md (I'd just use README and use markdown in there), compile, config.h.in, configure, configure.ac, depcomp, install-sh, missing (for obvious reasons. Your tool can be compiled with a 5-line-Makefile. If you don't know how, let me know and I'll help you out). With best regards Laslo Hunhold

Re: [dev] sfeed: RSS/Atom parser and reader

2022-02-16 Thread Laslo Hunhold
On Fri, 11 Feb 2022 14:54:24 +0100 Hiltjo Posthuma wrote: Dear Hiltjo, > I would like to share my project I've been using and tweaking over > the years: > > sfeed is a RSS and Atom parser (and it has some format programs). nice to see it having become so advanced over the years. I remember

Re: [dev] [quark] Integrating form handlers with quark

2022-02-09 Thread Laslo Hunhold
On Wed, 9 Feb 2022 02:28:27 -0800 climbTheStairs wrote: Dear climbTheStairs, > I have used quark to host my static website for the past few months, > and I've been amazed by how well it works. > I want to try out the idea of keeping data processing > and data presentation separate, described on

Re: [dev] [quark] Integrating form handlers with quark

2022-02-09 Thread Laslo Hunhold
On Wed, 9 Feb 2022 11:37:37 +0100 Teodoro Santoni wrote: Dear Teodoro, > A reverse proxy is vital only if your server can serve only HTTP(S) > and little else. Otherwise it just prevents urls from looking ugly: > you can serve your other process for input process on another port and > put

Re: [dev] libgrapheme versioning

2022-01-28 Thread Laslo Hunhold
On Wed, 26 Jan 2022 22:08:43 -0300 "Pedro Lucas Porcellis" wrote: Dear Pedro, > While packaging libgrapheme for Alpine, it was pointed out that the > generated .so file isn't versioned, which apparently it is not bad, > but it was questioned why. I don't know if it's a slip or if it's a >

Re: [dev] [slock] Doesn't work when password contains non-ASCII characters

2022-01-09 Thread Laslo Hunhold
On Sun, 9 Jan 2022 09:45:49 +0100 meator wrote: Dear meator, > Slock doesn't work when the user's password contains non-ASCII > characters. I have discussed this in the IRC channel, because I had > problems with 'ů'. > > Please fix this or document the fact that slock doesn't support >

Re: [dev] Special target ".POSIX" in Makefiles

2022-01-01 Thread Laslo Hunhold
On Sat, 1 Jan 2022 23:30:39 +0100 Ralph Eastwood wrote: Dear Ralph, > Those are both useful suggestions! Thank you! you're very welcome! :) With best regards Laslo

Re: [dev] Special target ".POSIX" in Makefiles

2022-01-01 Thread Laslo Hunhold
On Sat, 1 Jan 2022 17:03:41 +0100 Ralph Eastwood wrote: Dear Ralph, > Thanks for pointing out that technique, I've utilised it in the past > and it's a shame that it's not more well-known... I've seen many a > GNUism in its place... yeah, it makes a lot of sense and is nice and simple. > The

Re: [dev] Special target ".POSIX" in Makefiles

2022-01-01 Thread Laslo Hunhold
On Sat, 1 Jan 2022 14:08:24 +0100 Ralph Eastwood wrote: Dear Ralph, > So... makellint? :D > I like it; it seems 'makel' is unused as a project name. and even if, it's not like names are reserved. When some 13-year-old kid dumps some Rust-crap with a name on GitHub I wouldn't see it as

Re: [dev] Special target ".POSIX" in Makefiles

2022-01-01 Thread Laslo Hunhold
On Sat, 1 Jan 2022 13:22:48 +0100 Mattias Andrée wrote: Dear Mattias, > libzahl is my only project with a German name, and it's was called > libzahl because the bold Z used represent the integers stands for > Zahl, but I do have projects with names in different languages (I > also have

Re: [dev] Special target ".POSIX" in Makefiles

2022-01-01 Thread Laslo Hunhold
On Sat, 1 Jan 2022 10:33:22 +0100 Mattias Andrée wrote: Dear Mattias, first off, happy new year to all of you! > Thanks for pointing that it, I didn't find it in my search. > I renamed it to mklint. This is also confusing as mk(1) by plan9 exists, but you explicitly target POSIX make(1).

Re: [dev] Special target ".POSIX" in Makefiles

2021-12-31 Thread Laslo Hunhold
On Fri, 31 Dec 2021 11:16:18 +0100 Hiltjo Posthuma wrote: Dear Hiltjo, > In my opinion a practical way is to really test it on different > systems (bleeding edge Linux, older Debian stable, NetBSD, OpenBSD) > and GNU/Make, different BSD make programs. > > This doesn't cover the POSIX

Re: [dev] Special target ".POSIX" in Makefiles

2021-12-31 Thread Laslo Hunhold
On Fri, 31 Dec 2021 01:52:42 -0800 Arthur Williams wrote: Dear Arthur, > I too fell victim to the GNU trap and thought "?=" was standard and > actually useful. hehe this thread here feels like a self-help-thread of the newly POSIX-make-awakened! > Completely forgot about the -e flag. Now I

Re: [dev] Special target ".POSIX" in Makefiles

2021-12-31 Thread Laslo Hunhold
On Fri, 31 Dec 2021 12:49:46 +0600 NRK wrote: Dear NRK, > Hmm, I was under the impression that `?=` was accepted into POSIX. > But I cannot find any mention of it in the posix manpage (man 1p > make) so I guess I was wrong. > > What would be a posix replacement for `?=` ? I assume something

Re: [dev] Special target ".POSIX" in Makefiles

2021-12-30 Thread Laslo Hunhold
On Thu, 30 Dec 2021 21:17:32 +0100 Mattias Andrée wrote: Dear Mattias, > I've actually being thinking of writing a makefile linter. > How interested would people be in such a tool? very interested! Even though, when you implement the logic, you might as well go all the way and offer a make(1)

Re: [dev] Special target ".POSIX" in Makefiles

2021-12-30 Thread Laslo Hunhold
On Thu, 30 Dec 2021 17:49:23 +0100 crae...@gmail.com wrote: Dear craekz, > As far as I can see, we could add `.POSIX` to the following programs: > dwm, dmenu, dwmstatus, sent and tabbed > I've just looked over the Makefiles very briefly, so I may have > overseen something. Note: I just picked

[dev] [libgrapheme] version 1 release

2021-12-22 Thread Laslo Hunhold
ould be more or less obvious. With best regards Laslo Hunhold [0]: https://libs.suckless.org/libgrapheme [1]: https://dl.suckless.org/libgrapheme/libgrapheme-1.tar.gz

Re: [dev] [dwm] dwm breaks on synchronized screens

2021-11-12 Thread Laslo Hunhold
On Thu, 11 Nov 2021 19:34:08 +0100 Thomas Oltmann wrote: Dear Thomas, > What do I do about this? > Is it even a bug or just me using dwm for stuff it's not intended to > do? One way or another, how can I do my presentations without > fighting the WM all the time? do you have a way so we can

Re: [dev] Whether a css selector applies to given html surf code

2021-11-10 Thread Laslo Hunhold
On Tue, 26 Oct 2021 20:44:52 +0200 Страхиња Радић wrote: Dear Страхиња, > If anyone wants to use other software, by all means they should. > There's nothing wrong with that, but on the other side, that > shouldn't influence suckless programs. I completely agree with that. Popularity should

Re: [dev] Wayland compositors

2021-09-16 Thread Laslo Hunhold
On Tue, 14 Sep 2021 15:21:58 +0600 NRK wrote: Dear NRK, > Adding to what Laslo has already said: > > I think it's laughable that that wayland devolopers claim wayland to > be a replacement for X while actively ignoring many use-case and > forcing their "perfect frame" philosophy onto the

Re: [dev] Wayland compositors

2021-09-09 Thread Laslo Hunhold
On Wed, 8 Sep 2021 20:34:20 + Hadrien Lacour wrote: Dear Hadrien, > This, it would have been a great goal to modularize X11 and keep the > worthy parts, not just reduce it to an exercise in "minimalism" (and > complete lack of portability) and expect the free FOSS market to > magically

Re: [dev] Wayland compositors

2021-09-08 Thread Laslo Hunhold
On Tue, 31 Aug 2021 14:28:29 +0100 Nick wrote: Dear Nick, > Any thoughts, experiences, recommendations? the discussion has been very fruitful. Let me share my thoughts. Wayland the protocol is actually rather simple. It's a very thin messaging layer between a compositor and clients, nothing

Re: [dev] Auditing requiirement for sbase

2021-07-29 Thread Laslo Hunhold
On Thu, 29 Jul 2021 15:00:17 -0300 EuAndreh wrote: Dear EuAndreh, > The README of the sbase project [0] classifies tools has being > audited or not. Looking at the log of the repository I could only > find soft references to what such audit entails, such as [1] and [2]. > > From what I could

Re: [dev] sshd?

2021-07-28 Thread Laslo Hunhold
On Wed, 28 Jul 2021 03:05:43 +0300 anigger@national.shitposting.agency wrote: > MOSH Thanks for the recommendation; I didn't know about that one[0]! It's just a little worrying that there seems to be little activity in the codebase, that might also just as well indicate a mature project. With

Re: [dev] Better naming for arg.h API

2021-07-18 Thread Laslo Hunhold
On Thu, 8 Jul 2021 21:06:37 +0200 Hiltjo Posthuma wrote: Dear Hiltjo, > Can you please stop spamming the mailinglist? I already explained the > reasons why arg.h won't be changed. > > Feel free to blame me for being rude or whatever. I agree here. Certainly arg.h is not a big "construction

Re: [dev] Enhanced arg.h from quark

2021-07-06 Thread Laslo Hunhold
On Tue, 06 Jul 2021 00:08:04 + Sebastian LaVine wrote: Dear Sebastian, > Might I recommend using https://0x0.st or > https://ix.io for pastebins. You can read and > write to them using curl, or still use the browser > but without the extra fat and JS of pastebin.com. I'd recommend just

Re: [dev] Update outdated suckless website

2021-06-11 Thread Laslo Hunhold
On Fri, 11 Jun 2021 11:38:20 +0200 Hiltjo Posthuma wrote: Dear Hiltjo, Dear Martin, > Thank you for the valuable feedback. I also want to thank you, Martin, for your feedback! I've assigned Scrum-ID #S1H3I3T7 to this ticket. > 200ms seems still a bit high, maybe we could use geolocated CDNs

Re: [dev] Sxmo presentation at AlpineConf (Sat May 15, 14:30 UTC)

2021-05-14 Thread Laslo Hunhold
On Fri, 14 May 2021 15:59:47 +0200 Maarten van Gompel wrote: Dear Maarten, > I just wanted to drop a little announcement that this weekend on > AlpineConf 2021, we will present Sxmo, the simple X mobile > environment. As it is largely based on the suckless stack of tools > (dwm, dmenu, svkbd,

Re: [dev] Ada not Rust

2021-05-13 Thread Laslo Hunhold
On Thu, 13 May 2021 05:54:03 +0300 Greg Minshall wrote: Dear Greg, > > I'm just glad that I, as a numerical mathematician, don't have to > > use MATLAB anymore. I initiated and finalized that the current > > lecture on numerical mathematics here in Cologne, which I > > co-supervise, is using

Re: [dev] Ada not Rust

2021-05-12 Thread Laslo Hunhold
On Tue, 11 May 2021 11:15:37 +0300 Greg Minshall wrote: Dear Greg, > i'm ignorant, but curious. a friend who does high performance > computing is a fan of Julia, and in the past pointed me at > > https://www.nextplatform.com/2017/11/28/julia-language-delivers-petascale-hpc-performance/ > >

Re: [dev] Ada not Rust

2021-05-04 Thread Laslo Hunhold
On Sun, 02 May 2021 18:17:45 -0400 "Greg Reagle" wrote: Dear Greg, > Do you have any other suggestions for alternatives to C? this question is too general. For academic purposes (HPC, data analysis, numerical mathematics, statistics, etc.) I can recommend Julia. > I haven't started re-writing

Re: [dev] Ada not Rust

2021-05-02 Thread Laslo Hunhold
On Wed, 21 Apr 2021 02:38:48 +1200 Miles Rout wrote: Dear Miles, > On Tue, Apr 20, 2021 at 06:45:40AM -0700, Jeremy wrote: > > Regarding readability: in terms of the just the standard libraries, > > I agree that Rust is more readable than C, especially it comes to > > iterating and generics.

Re: [dev] Ada not Rust

2021-05-02 Thread Laslo Hunhold
On Tue, 20 Apr 2021 06:29:30 -0400 "Greg Reagle" wrote: Dear Greg, > Thank you for your explanation Laslo Hunhold. I wholeheartedly agree > with you about the fallibility of human programmers, and the > vulnerability of C to errors. Even though I am a fan of the suckless &

Re: [dev] Ada not Rust

2021-04-20 Thread Laslo Hunhold
On Mon, 19 Apr 2021 16:19:18 -0400 "Greg Reagle" wrote: Dear Greg, let me give a short overview of Ada and why I think it's great: Ada is all about dependability (that's why it was developed and is still widely used in a wide range of fields) and many things you'd find in other languages are

Re: [dev] Checksums and Sig files for release gzip

2021-04-17 Thread Laslo Hunhold
On Sat, 17 Apr 2021 17:42:50 +0200 Mattias Andrée wrote: Dear Mattias, > I've completely ignored Rust. What's the problem with it? in regard to my argument: It has abysmal compile times and the compiler is extremely bloated. In general though, I see multiple issues with it: The crate-system

Re: [dev] Checksums and Sig files for release gzip

2021-04-17 Thread Laslo Hunhold
On Wed, 14 Apr 2021 09:05:01 +0300 Sergey Matveev wrote: Dear Sergey, > If we a talking here about checking software integrity, then speed is > important. Millions of people check the hash of downloaded files -- if > it is slow, then huge quantity of time/energy is wasted. Less time you > spent

Re: [dev] Checksums and Sig files for release gzip

2021-04-17 Thread Laslo Hunhold
On Sat, 17 Apr 2021 07:45:16 +0200 (CEST) Sagar Acharya wrote: Dear Sagar, > Ok. But this is a behavioral change right? How can a patch help in > this case? > > Admins always protest the decision in almost every community if it > isn't theirs. Am I suggesting something harmful here? It takes a

Re: [dev] Completeness suckless

2021-04-09 Thread Laslo Hunhold
On Fri, 9 Apr 2021 14:54:31 +0200 (CEST) Sagar Acharya wrote: Dear Sagar, > I recently wrote this article > > https://designman.org/sagaracharya/blog/trusting_no_one > > being absolutely unaware about suckless and this was brought to my > attention. interesting article! > Suckless's

Re: [dev] st: enlarge font

2021-03-22 Thread Laslo Hunhold
On Mon, 22 Mar 2021 16:03:39 + Wesley Pannell wrote: > Can we remove this email address from the list? This is rediculous. Welcome to the internet.

Followup: Re: [dev] [quark] Shouldn't it redirect site.com/ to /index.html?

2021-01-24 Thread Laslo Hunhold
On Fri, 22 Jan 2021 11:16:13 -0800 Spenser Truex wrote: > If you navigate to my site: > http://equwal.com > It doesn't redirct to index.html, since I don't have a program > performing redirects on there like varnishd. > > Previously I was using varnishd in front of quark to do this, and I > had

Re: [dev] [quark] Shouldn't it redirect site.com/ to /index.html?

2021-01-24 Thread Laslo Hunhold
On Fri, 22 Jan 2021 11:16:13 -0800 Spenser Truex wrote: Dear Spenser, > If you navigate to my site: > http://equwal.com > It doesn't redirct to index.html, since I don't have a program > performing redirects on there like varnishd. > > Previously I was using varnishd in front of quark to do

Re: [dev] [st] When shrinking the width of a st window, overflowing text gets cut out and it is no longer retrievable, not even if the width is reset to the original one

2021-01-06 Thread Laslo Hunhold
On Tue, 05 Jan 2021 20:16:57 +0100 LuxGiammi wrote: Dear Luxgiammi, > It's my first message in this mailing list. > I've been using st for more than one year and I've always had the > intention to ask this. I know that there must be a way to solve the > problem (in fact, I started to study X

Re: [dev] [st] Undeleted parts of characters

2021-01-01 Thread Laslo Hunhold
On Thu, 31 Dec 2020 15:43:59 +0100 Filip wrote: Dear Filip, > I do not know why but for some reason very long characters like "|" > "/" "\" "å" etc does not get fully deleted in terminal. Instead they > leave annoying dots at the top; the absolute top of the characters > remain. This is

Re: [dev] [slstatus] Inactivity and continuation of development

2020-11-30 Thread Laslo Hunhold
On Mon, 30 Nov 2020 17:13:32 +0100 Aaron Marcher wrote: Dear Aaron, > I have been very inactive here for the last year because of work and > personal reasons. However, I am alive! :-) > > Regarding my slstatus maintainership: In the next weeks I will dig > through all the discussion on the

Re: [dev] [sbase][tar] GNU tar support

2020-11-25 Thread Laslo Hunhold
On Wed, 25 Nov 2020 22:49:32 +0100 Mattias Andrée wrote: Dear Mattias, > Concerning farbfeld, it is quite a different thing to create a new > simpler standard than supporting an already existing but complex > standard. Farbfeld was a good first step in moving towards simpler > image formats,

Re: [dev] [sbase][tar] GNU tar support

2020-11-25 Thread Laslo Hunhold
On Wed, 25 Nov 2020 18:32:36 +0100 Thomas Oltmann wrote: Dear Thomas, > > if gnu tar proprietary? > > No. I think Laslo meant 'proprietary' as in 'ad hoc' or 'incompatible' > (with standard implementations). yeah, I used a pretty "drastic" word to describe it. All will agree that GNU-tar is

Re: [dev] [sbase][tar] GNU tar support

2020-11-25 Thread Laslo Hunhold
On Wed, 25 Nov 2020 07:51:22 -0500 Cág wrote: Dear Cág, > A quick question: for "POSIX tar archive (GNU)" files tar prints > tar: unsupported tar-filetype L > > Is GNU tar support out of scope? there's probably no way to implement those GNU-extensions in a good and suckless way. The FSF has

Re: [dev] On how dwm hides windows

2020-06-24 Thread Laslo Hunhold
On Wed, 24 Jun 2020 14:39:03 +0200 "Silvan Jegen" wrote: Dear Silvan, > The first beginnings are here (not by me): > > https://github.com/djpohly/dwl > > It uses the wlroots[0] wayland compositor library which a lot of > people may not consider suckless however. I think the decision to use >

Re: [dev] Re: [slstatus] temperature module acts wierd on OpenBSD

2020-06-16 Thread Laslo Hunhold
On Tue, 16 Jun 2020 20:53:34 +0200 Mattias Andrée wrote: Dear Mattias, > I'm assuming temp.value i an `int`, as %d is used. The problem was > probably that `1E6` is actually a `double` rather than an `int`, > as the whole expression is promoted to `double`, because `bprintf` is > (I assume)

Re: [dev] Re: [slstatus] temperature module acts wierd on OpenBSD

2020-06-16 Thread Laslo Hunhold
t; thanks for sending in this patch! What is the origin of this problem? Does this have something to do with guaranteed constant-sizes in Posix? With best regards Laslo Hunhold

Re: [dev] [ANNOUNCE] vis-0.6

2020-06-07 Thread Laslo Hunhold
On Sun, 7 Jun 2020 13:16:57 +0200 Marc André Tanner wrote: Dear Marc, > I'm pleased to announce a new version of the vis editor, combining > modal editing with built-in support for multiple selections, > structural regular expressions and Lua scripting capabilities. this looks really cool! I'm

Re: [dev] Infnite loop in drawbar() when using attachbelow and sending windows between monitors

2020-06-06 Thread Laslo Hunhold
On Sat, 6 Jun 2020 13:11:02 +0200 Hiltjo Posthuma wrote: Dear Hiltjo, > I don't use this patch, but can someone push it to the wiki so anyone > can easily use the fix? I've included the change in both patch-versions, tested it against 6.2 and pushed it into the wiki. With best regards Laslo

[dev] [slcon7] Cancellation of the suckless conference 2020

2020-05-27 Thread Laslo Hunhold
hardships many of us are enduring due to the developing depression. We hope to be able to host a conference next year and welcome you there. Thank you for your support; we wish you all the best for what is ahead! With best regards Laslo Hunhold

Re: [dev] [smu] Updated smu ready for suckless.org?

2020-04-30 Thread Laslo Hunhold
On Thu, 30 Apr 2020 07:57:01 +0200 Karl Bartel wrote: Dear Karl, > I tried to get the task "Improve the Markdown parser used by the > suckless wiki called 'smu' to conform more to Markdown" from > https://suckless.org/project_ideas/ done. You can find a summary of > the differences introduced

Re: [dev] Scrollback utility for use with st

2020-04-06 Thread Laslo Hunhold
On Mon, 06 Apr 2020 09:58:06 -0400 "Greg Reagle" wrote: Dear Greg, > Yes that happen to me occasionally, which is why I use the scrollback > patch for st. I find it much easier to hit Shift+PageUp than to > rerun a command. And when the output of a command changes with time, > re-running it

Re: [dev] Scrollback utility for use with st

2020-04-06 Thread Laslo Hunhold
On Mon, 6 Apr 2020 13:27:21 +0200 Laslo Hunhold wrote: > I'm definitely not an expert in terminal emulators (Roberto, Hiltjo > and Christoph are), but the case is pretty clear to me when I look at > scroll[0], which Jan and Jochen are working on right now. > If you look at scroll.c,

Re: [dev] Scrollback utility for use with st

2020-04-06 Thread Laslo Hunhold
On Mon, 6 Apr 2020 11:43:29 +0200 Hadrien Lacour wrote: Dear Hadrien, > If what you said is true about having to reimplement a terminal > emulator in the scrollback utility, it completely makes sense to > integrate it. I'm definitely not an expert in terminal emulators (Roberto, Hiltjo and

Re: [dev] Scrollback utility for use with st

2020-04-06 Thread Laslo Hunhold
On Mon, 06 Apr 2020 08:48:38 +0200 "Silvan Jegen" wrote: Dear Silvan, > I honestly never use tmux either. If I think I may need the output of > a program, I just redirect it to a file/editor/pager. yeah, same here. But how often do you get some output and think "oh, I actually needed that" and

Re: [dev] Scrollback utility for use with st

2020-04-05 Thread Laslo Hunhold
On Sun, 05 Apr 2020 16:52:15 +0200 "Silvan Jegen" wrote: Dear Silvan, > Yes, the scrollback buffer can be implemented by a different tool like > tmux for example. That's why this functionality is not implemented in > st from what I understand. Separation of concerns and so on. > > I can see

Re: [dev] Scrollback utility for use with st

2020-04-05 Thread Laslo Hunhold
On Sun, 5 Apr 2020 12:11:09 +0200 Georg Lehner wrote: Dear Georg, > A question: why is the scrollback-patch not included in `st` already exactly my point. I see no reason why there can't at least be a scrollback, which defaults to 0 in config.h. Wouldn't this make all sides happy? With best

Re: [dev] Scrollback utility for use with st

2020-04-03 Thread Laslo Hunhold
On Thu, 2 Apr 2020 21:14:11 +0200 Georg Lehner wrote: Dear Georg, > I just figured out, that `st` already has an unlimited scrollback > buffer > - kind of. > > Run `st -o /tmp/unlimited_scrollbackbuffer`. > > Than inside the `st` terminal, you can `less`, `vi` ... whatever you > want. > >

Re: [dev] [libgrapheme] announcement

2020-03-28 Thread Laslo Hunhold
On Fri, 27 Mar 2020 21:09:45 + sylvain.bertr...@gmail.com wrote: Dear Sylvain, > How about making it "work" with "One Compilation Unit" projects? I gave this a lot of thought, but came to the conclusion, that it would not be beneficial in this case. Unicode is a moving target, as they

Re: [dev] [libgrapheme] announcement

2020-03-27 Thread Laslo Hunhold
On Sat, 28 Mar 2020 00:32:24 +0100 Mattias Andrée wrote: Dear Mattias, > This sounds absolutely horrible. Non-pre-composed characters are not > widely well support and are often rendered terribly, some software > (like the Linux VT) cannot even rendering them. yes, the Linux VT is a good

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