Re: XPM support for NSImage

2006-11-07 Thread Hubert Chan
Hi everyone, Is there any interest in including my XPM NSImage support into GNUstep GUI? If so, I will sign the copyright form, and rework it as a patch against GNUstep GUI, rather than as a standalone class. If not, I'll probably get it into Etoile. Let me know. Thanks, Hubert ___

Re: XPM support for NSImage

2006-11-07 Thread Hubert Chan
the X11-specific bits. (No offense meant to YAMAMOTO Mitsuharu; I'm sure the patch that he wrote is good.) libXpm also provides functions for writing XPM files, if I ever want to add that as well. Thanks for the link, though. It's nice to see that someone was courageous enough to write an

Re: XPM support for NSImage

2006-11-07 Thread Hubert Chan
On Wed, 08 Nov 2006 00:47:53 +0100, Fred Kiefer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > Hubert Chan schrieb: >> >> Is there any interest in including my XPM NSImage support into >> GNUstep GUI? If so, I will sign the copyright form, and rework it as >> a patch agai

Re: XPM support for NSImage

2006-11-07 Thread Hubert Chan
ne number of file formats. Another thing is, does this also allow for writing files? -- Hubert Chan - email & Jabber: [EMAIL PROTECTED] - http://www.uhoreg.ca/ PGP/GnuPG key: 1024D/124B61FA (Key available at wwwkeys.pgp.net) Fingerprint: 96

Re: Plans for change....

2006-12-16 Thread Hubert Chan
e would make the user experience better > overall. And I guess at least part of this would involve becoming involved in the freedesktop.org effort. (Unfortunately, probably not something that I can help out with much.) Although as a whole, this is probably a very tough problem. There are a fe

Re: Plans for change....

2006-12-18 Thread Hubert Chan
ust about localization. If you change fonts, it may break the layout as well. But yes, as you say, to each his own. -- Hubert Chan - email & Jabber: [EMAIL PROTECTED] - http://www.uhoreg.ca/ PGP/GnuPG key: 1024D/124B61FA (Key available at wwwkeys.pgp.net) Fingerprint: 96C5 012F 5F74 A5F7

Re: Test base library stable branch please

2006-12-27 Thread Hubert Chan
ca/experimental/gnustep/ ./ It should be able to install straight on top of the regular Debian packages. Let me know if there are any problems with it. I'll try to keep the packages relatively up to date. Right now, the packages are based on an SVN checkout from last Saturday. -- Hubert C

Re: Proposal to deprecate Xlib backend

2006-12-28 Thread Hubert Chan
ly for those functions. They are mostly for things that the *Step API does not handle (e.g. switching desktops, embedding, etc.). -- Hubert Chan - email & Jabber: [EMAIL PROTECTED] - http://www.uhoreg.ca/ PGP/GnuPG key: 1024D/124B61FA (Key available at wwwkeys.pgp.net) Fingerprint: 96C5 012F

Re: Test base library stable branch please

2006-12-30 Thread Hubert Chan
On Fri, 29 Dec 2006 21:23:25 +, "Paddy Smith" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: [...] > I'd be happy to send/build you ppc binaries if it helps, but I imagine > you have buildds for that :-) Nope. I just have my i386 machine, and no buildd (it's a private build), so ppc binaries would be helpful.

Re: Moving GNUstep applications to GPLv3

2007-06-27 Thread Hubert Chan
On Wed, 27 Jun 2007 10:09:37 +0200, Fred Kiefer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > I support this change as well. We already have the choice for the user > of the library in there: >This library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or >modify it under the terms of the GNU Library Genera

Re: libgnustep-base split proposal

2006-03-14 Thread Hubert Chan
So under Debian, there is a /usr/lib/libgnustep-base.so.1.11, and other libraries can be found under /usr/lib too. But if gnustep-make had better support for FHS locations, that would be helpful too. -- Hubert Chan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - http://www.uhoreg.ca/ PGP/GnuPG key: 1024D/124B61FA Finger

Re: FHS compliance/Abstraction of NSBundle

2006-05-09 Thread Hubert Chan
step.sh and use openapp, Debian also provides wrapper scripts that take care of that. One problem with getting general FHS compliance that I can see is that the FHS doesn't have anything analogous to the Network or user domains. -- Hubert Chan - email & Jabber: [EMAIL PROTECTED] - http

Re: FHS compliance/Abstraction of NSBundle

2006-05-09 Thread Hubert Chan
On Wed, 10 May 2006 00:09:39 +0200, Helge Hess <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > On 9. Mai 2006, at 23:06 Uhr, Hubert Chan wrote: >> One problem with getting general FHS compliance that I can see is >> that the FHS doesn't have anything analogous to the Network or user >&

Re: FHS compliance/Abstraction of NSBundle

2006-05-10 Thread Hubert Chan
On Wed, 10 May 2006 11:16:33 +0200, Helge Hess <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > On May 10, 2006, at 6:11 AM, Hubert Chan wrote: >> the FHS doesn't define things > BTW: before this starts to go in the wrong direction again, we are not > talking about "just" FHS

Re: FHS compliance/Abstraction of NSBundle

2006-05-10 Thread Hubert Chan
On Thu, 11 May 2006 00:15:51 +0200, Helge Hess <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > On May 10, 2006, at 7:25 PM, Hubert Chan wrote: >> My main concern, though, is that since the FHS doesn't define those >> directories, users might get upset if we start creating random >>

Re: Need to make an unstable release for Debian by 8/26

2006-08-19 Thread Hubert Chan
On Sat, 19 Aug 2006 20:46:44 -0700 (PDT), Gregory John Casamento <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > The Debian package maintainer will not be available from 9/1-9/17, so > it cuts that time out of the time we would have had to stabilize > things. :/ Just to clarify, things can be unstable (in terms of

Re: GUI/Gorm code freeze

2006-08-26 Thread Hubert Chan
and then having GNUstep call that library. Thus the library is not part of GNUstep (and hence wouldn't require copyright assignment), but GNUstep still gets to use the classes. Although this method is probably less desirable to actually having the classes in GNUstep. -- Hubert Chan -

Re: Removing all remaining distinction between shared, debug, profile and static libs/executables

2006-09-18 Thread Hubert Chan
. But if you want to remove the distinction, this can probably be worked around. -- Hubert Chan - email & Jabber: [EMAIL PROTECTED] - http://www.uhoreg.ca/ PGP/GnuPG key: 1024D/124B61FA (Key available at wwwkeys.pgp.net) Fingerprint: 96C5 012F 5F74 A5F7 1FF7 5291 AF29 C719 124B 61FA _

Re: gnustep release numbers

2006-10-04 Thread Hubert Chan
any reason we need to change the ABI all the time? (AFAIK, glib/gtk+ hasn't changed their ABI since glib/gtk+ 2.0 was released, so any old program that was compiled back then will still run on a newer system.) -- Hubert Chan - email & Jabber: [EMAIL PROTECTED] - http://www.uhoreg.ca/ P

Re: gnustep release numbers

2006-10-04 Thread Hubert Chan
ime the SONAME is bumped, that counts as an ABI change, since you must recompile all your programs. The SONAMEs for GUI and for Base have been bumped for almost every release. -- Hubert Chan - email & Jabber: [EMAIL PROTECTED] - http://www.uhoreg.ca/ PGP/GnuPG key: 1024D/124B61FA (Key availab

Re: gnustep release numbers

2006-10-04 Thread Hubert Chan
ompiled before the new library can enter the testing distribution. > And as long as the complaints from both groups are roughly equal, > we've probably got the actual release rate about right. -- Hubert Chan - email & Jabber: [EMAIL PROTECTED] - http://www.uhoreg.ca/ PGP/GnuPG key: 10

Re: gnustep release numbers

2006-10-04 Thread Hubert Chan
. Actually, I think that we (Jeremy and I) are talking about providing backward-compatible ABIs, whereas you are talking about ensuring backward- and forward-compatible ABIs. -- Hubert Chan - email & Jabber: [EMAIL PROTECTED] - http://www.uhoreg.ca/

Re: GNUSTEP_INSTALLATION_DOMAIN

2006-10-12 Thread Hubert Chan
ot;local" package, and there is no distribution involved. But if you obtain GNUstep from your distribution, then it should definitely go under /usr. So IMHO by default, the System and Local domains should be /usr/local, but the distributions will of course override that for their own

Re: GNUSTEP_INSTALLATION_DOMAIN

2006-10-13 Thread Hubert Chan
ey'll need gnustep-make anyways. Then you can let the binary distributors do what they want, and split off a gnustep-common package if they want to. Of course, I'm biased, because that's how we're doing things in Debian. ;) -- Hubert Chan - email & Jabber: [EMAIL PROTECTED

XPM support for NSImage

2006-10-31 Thread Hubert Chan
ription: Binary data -- Hubert Chan - email & Jabber: [EMAIL PROTECTED] - http://www.uhoreg.ca/ PGP/GnuPG key: 1024D/124B61FA (Key available at wwwkeys.pgp.net) Fingerprint: 96C5 012F 5F74 A5F7 1FF7 5291 AF29 C719 124B 61FA ___ Gnustep-dev