Re: [DNG] Is netman being adopted or was it a waste of time and effort?

2015-11-23 Thread Hendrik Boom
On Sun, Nov 22, 2015 at 06:48:43PM +0100, Edward Bartolo wrote: > Hi, > > Font size depends on your pixels per inch setting. If your screen > resolution is very high fonts can also appear smaller than intended. > > Please reply giving me your screen resolution and your estimate of > font size in

Re: [DNG] Is netman being adopted or was it a waste of time and effort?

2015-11-22 Thread Edward Bartolo
Hi, Font size depends on your pixels per inch setting. If your screen resolution is very high fonts can also appear smaller than intended. Please reply giving me your screen resolution and your estimate of font size in millimetres. I will try to devise a way to tell the GUI frontend to use a diff

Re: [DNG] Is netman being adopted or was it a waste of time, and effort?

2015-11-21 Thread aitor_czr
Sorry, overlooked! It is only now, as you say this, that i remember reading it: * DngDigest, Vol 12, Issue 39 (September 13) * Thanks, Aitor On 11/21/2015 06:10 PM, Edward Bartolo wrote: netman can autoconnect, you only need to use the --auto-conn parameter with the GUI frontend. Edward

Re: [DNG] Is netman being adopted or was it a waste of time, and effort?

2015-11-21 Thread Edward Bartolo
netman can autoconnect, you only need to use the --auto-conn parameter with the GUI frontend. Edward On 21/11/2015, aitor_czr wrote: > Hi Edward, > > As you know, i'm taking a look at GtkBuilder. > > My first example was a window with a button doing nothing. So, it works > fine in old hardware.

Re: [DNG] Is netman being adopted or was it a waste of time, and effort?

2015-11-21 Thread aitor_czr
Hi Edward, As you know, i'm taking a look at GtkBuilder. My first example was a window with a button doing nothing. So, it works fine in old hardware. My second example was a spinner, and there will be more examples all of them focused to the netman gui. I've been using netman for weeks wi

Re: [DNG] Is netman being adopted or was it a waste of time and effort?

2015-11-20 Thread KatolaZ
On Fri, Nov 20, 2015 at 10:46:59PM +0300, Mitt Green wrote: > ‎‎At this moment I can say > netman should work at least. > All these rants about > where to put mkdir don't mean > anything until it can't be built. > > Since you are the principal > author of netman (right?) > you decide. I believe ea

Re: [DNG] Is netman being adopted or was it a waste of time and effort?

2015-11-20 Thread Edward Bartolo
Hi Aitor, Please note that NETMAN.HELP has been renamed to README as requested in the emails. There is also a recurrent complaint that the compilation of the backend should be responsible for created an obj and bin directories as described earlier in this email thread. See the code posts by Reine

Re: [DNG] Is netman being adopted or was it a waste of time and effort?

2015-11-20 Thread Edward Bartolo
Hi, netman/NETMAN.HELP was renamed to README as requested. Regarding the creation of directories, I will discuss the issue with Aitor who Debianized netman. Edward On 20/11/2015, Mitt Green wrote: > ‎‎At this moment I can say > netman should work at least. > All these rants about > where to put

Re: [DNG] Is netman being adopted or was it a waste of time and effort?

2015-11-20 Thread Mitt Green
‎‎At this moment I can say netman should work at least. All these rants about where to put mkdir don't mean anything until it can't be built. Since you are the principal author of netman (right?) you decide. I believe each solution will find a use in any Unix system out there.‎ ___

Re: [DNG] Is netman being adopted or was it a waste of time and effort?

2015-11-20 Thread Rainer Weikusat
Edward Bartolo writes: [...] >> obj and bin directories come up in backend folder, >> and as suggested Makefile in the directory should also >> be able to create these folders, if I understand everything >> right. > > The problem with this is there are contradicting opinions in this > email thre

Re: [DNG] Is netman being adopted or was it a waste of time and effort?

2015-11-20 Thread Timo Buhrmester
> In order to highlight your flaming. In order to obscure the fact that you have nothing of substance to add. > [Ignores attempt to continue the actual discussion] Welcome to my killfile. ___ Dng mailing list Dng@lists.dyne.org https://mailinglists.dyne.

Re: [DNG] Is netman being adopted or was it a waste of time and effort?

2015-11-20 Thread Edward Bartolo
Hi, > I thought the GUI is written on gtk+2 and C > (apt-cache depends netman-gui), why actually > Object Pascal? The reason is I have several years of experience using Delphi (Object) Pascal to create GUI programs and very little experience programming GUI programs using other languages. > obj

Re: [DNG] Is netman being adopted or was it a waste of time and effort?

2015-11-20 Thread Rainer Weikusat
Edward Bartolo writes: [...] > Regarding adding an obj and bin directories, there is a complication > as netman is two projects in one: GUI frontend written in Lazarus > Object Pascal and the backend written in C. I would appreciate if more > direction is given to me in this regard. There are b

Re: [DNG] Is netman being adopted or was it a waste of time and effort?

2015-11-20 Thread Mitt Green
‎Look for my first message in the thread, I describe my experience with it there, I cc'ed you. I see NETMAN.HELP, I mean it should be named README and contain installation info as well. obj and bin directories come up in backend folder, and as suggested Makefile in the directory should also be ab

Re: [DNG] Is netman being adopted or was it a waste of time and effort?

2015-11-20 Thread Rainer Weikusat
Timo Buhrmester writes: > On Fri, Nov 20, 2015 at 06:05:00PM +, Rainer Weikusat wrote: >> Timo Buhrmester writes: >> >> >> >> > Fatal error: can't create obj/backend.o: No such file or directory >> >> >> >> create a dummy file in this directory and check that into the SCM. >> >> >> > Why shou

Re: [DNG] Is netman being adopted or was it a waste of time and effort?

2015-11-20 Thread Edward Bartolo
Hi, The help plain text file is NETMAN.HELP and is found under netman's root directory. If I need to add anything to NETMAN.HELP, please reply so that I can add the required information. What is wrong with line 259? Can you post what any relevant error messages? Regarding adding an obj and bin d

Re: [DNG] Is netman being adopted or was it a waste of time and effort?

2015-11-20 Thread Timo Buhrmester
On Fri, Nov 20, 2015 at 06:05:00PM +, Rainer Weikusat wrote: > Timo Buhrmester writes: > >> >> >> > Fatal error: can't create obj/backend.o: No such file or directory > >> >> >> create a dummy file in this directory and check that into the SCM. > >> >> > Why should the repository have to remem

Re: [DNG] Is netman being adopted or was it a waste of time and effort?

2015-11-20 Thread Mitt Green
This discussion went somewhere. Here's my summary: 1. netman can't be used yet because      - source code lacks bin and obj folders;      - something has to be done in backend.c,     in particular on line 259;      - packages built from the source     don't work either;      - ‎lack of man page;  

Re: [DNG] Is netman being adopted or was it a waste of time and effort?

2015-11-20 Thread Rainer Weikusat
Timo Buhrmester writes: >> >> >> > Fatal error: can't create obj/backend.o: No such file or directory >> >> >> create a dummy file in this directory and check that into the SCM. >> >> > Why should the repository have to remember a build system detail? >> >> >> >> Because the build system is part

Re: [DNG] Is netman being adopted or was it a waste of time and effort?

2015-11-20 Thread Timo Buhrmester
> >> >> > Fatal error: can't create obj/backend.o: No such file or directory > >> >> create a dummy file in this directory and check that into the SCM. > >> > Why should the repository have to remember a build system detail? > >> > >> Because the build system is part of the code. > > It would stil

Re: [DNG] Is netman being adopted or was it a waste of time and effort?

2015-11-20 Thread Rainer Weikusat
Timo Buhrmester writes: >> >> > Fatal error: can't create obj/backend.o: No such file or directory >> >> create a dummy file in this directory and check that into the SCM. >> > Why should the repository have to remember a build system detail? >> >> Because the build system is part of the code. >

Re: [DNG] Is netman being adopted or was it a waste of time and effort?

2015-11-20 Thread Timo Buhrmester
> >> > Fatal error: can't create obj/backend.o: No such file or directory > >> create a dummy file in this directory and check that into the SCM. > > Why should the repository have to remember a build system detail? > > Because the build system is part of the code. It would still be preferable if

Re: [DNG] Is netman being adopted or was it a waste of time and effort?

2015-11-20 Thread Rainer Weikusat
Timo Buhrmester writes: >> > Fatal error: can't create obj/backend.o: No such file or directory >> To mention this again: The way to tell git (or any other SCM I've >> encountered so far) that an empty directory exists for a reason is to >> create a dummy file in this directory and check that into

Re: [DNG] Is netman being adopted or was it a waste of time and effort?

2015-11-20 Thread Timo Buhrmester
> > Fatal error: can't create obj/backend.o: No such file or directory > To mention this again: The way to tell git (or any other SCM I've > encountered so far) that an empty directory exists for a reason is to > create a dummy file in this directory and check that into the SCM. I > usually use a f

Re: [DNG] Is netman being adopted or was it a waste of time and effort?

2015-11-20 Thread Rainer Weikusat
Mitt Green writes: > Hi, > > I've tried installing netman from gnuinos.org/netman, > when typing "netman" it gives me nothing and > no errors. There is no man page available. > > Building from the source, which is on your gitlab, > gave me errors: > > > Assembler messages

Re: [DNG] Is netman being adopted or was it a waste of time and effort?

2015-11-20 Thread KatolaZ
On Fri, Nov 20, 2015 at 10:59:50AM +, Mitt Green wrote: > Hi, > > I've tried installing netman from gnuinos.org/netman, > when typing "netman" it gives me nothing and > no errors. There is no man page available. > > Building from the source, which is on your gitlab, > gave me errors: > > ---

Re: [DNG] Is netman being adopted or was it a waste of time and effort?

2015-11-20 Thread Mitt Green
Hi, I've tried installing netman from gnuinos.org/netman, when typing "netman" it gives me nothing and no errors. There is no man page available. Building from the source, which is on your gitlab, gave me errors: Assembler messages: Fatal error: can't create obj/backend.

Re: [DNG] Is netman being adopted or was it a waste of time and effort?

2015-11-20 Thread Hendrik Boom
On Fri, Nov 20, 2015 at 06:51:04AM +0100, Edward Bartolo wrote: > Hi All, > > At the moment, I am too busy to stay online. I am writing to ask > whether there are users of netman to evaluate whether my efforts were > worthwhile or not. > I'm interested in trying netman, and also interested in tr

[DNG] Is netman being adopted or was it a waste of time and effort?

2015-11-19 Thread Edward Bartolo
Hi All, At the moment, I am too busy to stay online. I am writing to ask whether there are users of netman to evaluate whether my efforts were worthwhile or not. Edward ___ Dng mailing list Dng@lists.dyne.org https://mailinglists.dyne.org/cgi-bin/mailm