Re: [Fink-devel] [OTAnn] Feedback

2005-11-08 Thread Max Horn
Am 07.11.2005 um 22:11 schrieb shenanigans: I was interested in getting feedback from current mail group users. We have mirrored your mail list in a new application that provides a more aggregated and safe environment which utilizes the power of broadband. Roomity.com v 1.5 is a web

Re: [Fink-devel] gtk+2 check error

2005-11-08 Thread Rogue
On Tue, 08 Nov 2005 07:32:53 +0100 Martin Costabel [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am answering in a new thread. It is a pity that you started this thread inside the one on the fink binary distribution. apology for that. Any self-respecting configure script should use such a construct, or even

Re: [Fink-devel] Re: Fink binary distributions

2005-11-08 Thread Rogue
On Tue, 08 Nov 2005 08:53:49 +0100 Martin Costabel [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: self-interest and fun, not importance or general usefulness. of course that is important. If you look up the internet however you will find that this is precisely why darwin ports is cited as a professional option

Re: [Fink-devel] Re: Fink binary distributions

2005-11-08 Thread Peter O'Gorman
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Rogue wrote: | On Tue, 08 Nov 2005 08:53:49 +0100 Martin Costabel [EMAIL PROTECTED] | wrote: | | ... I don't and never have used binaries, nor the stable tree so the | above is not a request but I'm having a hard time reconciliating the | (perceived)

Re: [Fink-devel] gtk+2 check error

2005-11-08 Thread Alexander K. Hansen
On 11/8/05, Rogue [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, 08 Nov 2005 07:32:53 +0100 Martin Costabel [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am answering in a new thread. It is a pity that you started this thread inside the one on the fink binary distribution. apology for that. Any self-respecting

[Fink-devel] fluxbox package maintainership

2005-11-08 Thread Rogue
FYI after 24hrs no response from fluxbox maintener. I offer to take over in 4 weeks if no sign of life and package is up-for-grab (have already latest compiled and running). Best Regards, Rogue -- R-Marechal Toontrack Music, Head of Support US: +1 (240) 764 4850 UK: +44 (0)20 8816 7694

Re: [Fink-devel] gtk+2 check error

2005-11-08 Thread Rogue
On Tue, 8 Nov 2005 08:55:39 -0500 Alexander K. Hansen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: anyway the issue in my case was pango1-xft2-dev that wasn't installed. I have no idea how that could have happened since it's a dependency for gtk+2 but here you go. It's a _build_ dependency for gtk+2, so

Re: [Fink-devel] Re: Fink binary distributions

2005-11-08 Thread Rogue
On Tue, 08 Nov 2005 22:01:43 +0900 Peter O'Gorman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Are you willing to code a system that will build packages as they are sumbitted, and as they are committed to cvs? I am not a coder. I barely get by maintaining a couple of packages. Having said that I can certainly

Re: [Fink-devel] gtk+2 check error

2005-11-08 Thread Daniel Macks
On Tue, Nov 08, 2005 at 02:34:57PM +, Rogue wrote: On Tue, 8 Nov 2005 08:55:39 -0500 Alexander K. Hansen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: anyway the issue in my case was pango1-xft2-dev that wasn't installed. I have no idea how that could have happened since it's a dependency for gtk+2

Re: [Fink-devel] fluxbox package maintainership

2005-11-08 Thread Alexander K. Hansen
On 11/8/05, Rogue [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: FYI after 24hrs no response from fluxbox maintener. I offer to take over in 4 weeks if no sign of life and package is up-for-grab (have already latest compiled and running). Best Regards, Rogue -- R-Marechal Toontrack Music, Head of

Re: [Fink-devel] gtk+2 check error

2005-11-08 Thread Rogue
On Tue, 8 Nov 2005 09:57:10 -0500 Daniel Macks [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I will add the dep for good measure but I remain unconvinced. It didn't work, and then you manually added something and now it works? What more proof could you possibly want that you need to list this something as one

Re: [Fink-devel] Re: Fink binary distributions

2005-11-08 Thread Brendan Cully
On Monday, 07 November 2005 at 08:38, Alexander K. Hansen wrote: On 11/7/05, Rogue [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On another subject it seems that a tracker week would be a good idea... it seems weird to me that packages that will essentially sit in the unstable tree would be held for that long

Re: [Fink-devel] Re: Fink binary distributions

2005-11-08 Thread Trevor Harmon
On Nov 8, 2005, at 9:59 AM, Brendan Cully wrote: Let me be honest: I have an axe to grind, since I've got a number of my own packages languishing in the submission queue for months. I'm grateful for the feedback I've gotten, and eg dmacks has definitely improved the quality of my packages. But

Re: [Fink-devel] Re: Fink binary distributions

2005-11-08 Thread Alexander K. Hansen
On 11/8/05, Trevor Harmon [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Nov 8, 2005, at 9:59 AM, Brendan Cully wrote: Let me be honest: I have an axe to grind, since I've got a number of my own packages languishing in the submission queue for months. I'm grateful for the feedback I've gotten, and eg dmacks

Re: [Fink-devel] Re: Fink binary distributions

2005-11-08 Thread Brendan Cully
On Tuesday, 08 November 2005 at 14:46, Alexander K. Hansen wrote: On 11/8/05, Trevor Harmon [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Perhaps we need to review the process of how people are granted commit access. On the other hand, is there even a process? I'm not sure what criteria a developer must meet

[Fink-devel] Use of pango1

2005-11-08 Thread Daniel Macks
We currently have pango1, pango1-xft2, and pango1-xft2-ft219 sets. The plain pango1-{dev,shlibs} packages appears to be a legacy bundle set from when we had xft1 and xft2 variants. Now we only have xft2; does the bundle serve a purpose any more? Do we actually expect to have future new pango1

[Fink-devel] new package - need feedback

2005-11-08 Thread Rogue
OK I just uploaded a new package libetpan into the tracker. This is intended to provide IMAP4 support to sylpheed-claws which I have working locally but won't upload until libetpan makes it into CVS to avoid claws beating it to it (the current version uploaded is marked as a preview and has no

Re: [Fink-devel] Re: Fink binary distributions

2005-11-08 Thread Trevor Harmon
On Nov 8, 2005, at 11:53 AM, Brendan Cully wrote: It's a nice idea, but maybe it just recapitulates the submission queue problem in miniature? I signed up on that page two days after it was posted. Apparently senior developers are a scarce resource... I agree; a mentoring system seems much

Re: [Fink-devel] Re: Fink binary distributions

2005-11-08 Thread Neil Tiffin
On Tuesday, 08 November 2005 at 14:46, Alexander K. Hansen wrote: On 11/8/05, Trevor Harmon [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Perhaps we need to review the process of how people are granted commit access. On the other hand, is there even a process? I'm not sure what criteria a developer must meet

Re: [Fink-devel] Re: Fink binary distributions

2005-11-08 Thread Alexander K. Hansen
On 11/8/05, Neil Tiffin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: At 11:19 AM -0800 11/8/05, Trevor Harmon wrote: On Nov 8, 2005, at 9:59 AM, Brendan Cully wrote: Let me be honest: I have an axe to grind, since I've got a number of my own packages languishing in the submission queue for months. I'm grateful

Re: [Fink-devel] Re: Fink binary distributions

2005-11-08 Thread Brendan Cully
On Tuesday, 08 November 2005 at 18:21, Alexander K. Hansen wrote: Speaking for myself, I can now try to expedite some packages out of the tracker. Anybody reading this thread who's got a package sitting around, please email me (better yet, fink-devel) the tracker ID number. If the package

Re: [Fink-devel] Re: Fink binary distributions

2005-11-08 Thread Trevor Harmon
On Nov 8, 2005, at 3:21 PM, Alexander K. Hansen wrote: The primary question isn't Do you know how to commit to CVS? (though that's definitely an asset!), but rather Do you know enough about Fink and how it works so that the packages you commit will generally be reliable? Agreed. But how do I

Re: [Fink-devel] Re: Fink binary distributions

2005-11-08 Thread Neil Tiffin
At 6:21 PM -0500 11/8/05, Alexander K. Hansen wrote: The primary question isn't Do you know how to commit to CVS? (though that's definitely an asset!), but rather Do you know enough about Fink and how it works so that the packages you commit will generally be reliable? -- Agreed, but as a

Re: [Fink-devel] Re: Fink binary distributions

2005-11-08 Thread Trevor Harmon
On Nov 8, 2005, at 3:21 PM, Alexander K. Hansen wrote: Speaking for myself, I can now try to expedite some packages out of the tracker. Anybody reading this thread who's got a package sitting around, please email me (better yet, fink-devel) the tracker ID number. If the package looks OK to me

[Fink-devel] fink validate

2005-11-08 Thread Rogue
a couple of things I observed in the tracker was that fink validate ignores revision set to 0... I've seen Daniel in particular wasting his time pointing out the policy to a number of submitters. Is there any reason for fink validate not to pick that up? Best Regards, Rogue --

[Fink-devel] Packages in the tracker to kickstart ...

2005-11-08 Thread Kevin Horton
On 8-Nov-05, at 18:21 , Alexander K. Hansen wrote: Speaking for myself, I can now try to expedite some packages out of the tracker. Anybody reading this thread who's got a package sitting around, please email me (better yet, fink-devel) the tracker ID number. If the package looks OK to me

[Fink-devel] Re: Packages in the tracker to kickstart ...

2005-11-08 Thread Alexander K. Hansen
On 11/8/05, Alexander K. Hansen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 11/8/05, Kevin Horton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 8-Nov-05, at 18:21 , Alexander K. Hansen wrote: Speaking for myself, I can now try to expedite some packages out of the tracker. Anybody reading this thread who's got a package

Re: [Fink-devel] Re: Fink binary distributions

2005-11-08 Thread Neil Tiffin
At 6:21 PM -0500 11/8/05, Alexander K. Hansen wrote: Speaking for myself, I can now try to expedite some packages out of the tracker. Anybody reading this thread who's got a package sitting around, please email me (better yet, fink-devel) the tracker ID number. If the package looks OK to me

[Fink-devel] Implicit epoch for distributions

2005-11-08 Thread Blair Zajac
Do we have an implicit epoch for distributions, so that a package built under 10.3 will be implicitly a lower version than the same package version and revision number under 10.4-t? This would be handy, as we wouldn't have to deal with having different revision numbers for the same package in

[Fink-devel] Re: Packages in the tracker to kickstart ...

2005-11-08 Thread Alexander K. Hansen
On 11/8/05, Kevin Horton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 8-Nov-05, at 18:21 , Alexander K. Hansen wrote: Speaking for myself, I can now try to expedite some packages out of the tracker. Anybody reading this thread who's got a package sitting around, please email me (better yet, fink-devel)