Re: installation domains

2008-11-09 Thread Hubert Chathi
On Wed, 29 Oct 2008 18:26:13 +, Richard Frith-Macdonald [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: Tentative policy and development proposals ... please enhance and then we can see if we can agree on the way forward. 1. We will move to FHS as the default layout for new installations [...] FWIW, IMHO, I

Re: [Gnustep-cvs] r26723 - in /libs/base/trunk: ChangeLog Headers/Additions/GNUstepBase/config.h.in Source/GSFFIInvocation.m configure configure.ac

2008-06-29 Thread Hubert Chathi
On Sun, 29 Jun 2008 09:54:56 +0200, David Ayers [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: Hello David David Chisnall schrieb: I think calling mmap directly is the wrong solution here. You should be using valloc() with the requested size rounded up to the nearest page size, and then use mprotect to set it as

Re: [Gnustep-cvs] r26723 - in /libs/base/trunk: ChangeLog Headers/Additions/GNUstepBase/config.h.in Source/GSFFIInvocation.m configure configure.ac

2008-06-29 Thread Hubert Chathi
On Sun, 29 Jun 2008 23:11:44 +0200, David Ayers [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: Hubert Chathi schrieb: Heh. My man page for memalign says: , | The obsolete function memalign() allocates size bytes and returns a | pointer to the allocated memory. The memory address will be a multiple

Re: Release ready?

2008-06-24 Thread Hubert Chathi
On Tue, 24 Jun 2008 12:40:28 +0100, Richard Frith-Macdonald [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: Last week I made a stable/bugfix release (1.16.1) of base, to fix a problem I'd found on some 64bit systems. Yup, I noticed that. If you are freezing libraries for Debian at the end of this month, it might

Re: more licensing issues :(

2008-06-22 Thread Hubert Chathi
On Sat, 21 Jun 2008 13:15:48 -0700 (PDT), Gregory John Casamento [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: All, I don't think we have an issue as Andrew has agreed to license them under the GPL. ... Excellent. Thanks for looking into this, Gregory. I hope this is the last of the licensing issues, and that we

more licensing issues :(

2008-06-20 Thread Hubert Chathi
Debian Bug #487143 [1] was filed against gnustep-gui, which points out that some of the included images are licensed in a way that prevents modification, and also prevents use for anything other than developing free OpenStep applications. [1] http://bugs.debian.org/487143 This presents a problem

Re: Release ready?

2008-06-14 Thread Hubert Chathi
On Fri, 13 Jun 2008 21:22:18 -0600, Adam Fedor [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: I'll branch a new stable release tomorrow unless anyone has any objections. I notice the new stable release is still versioned 1.14.x and 0.12.x. Does this mean that, for example, the latest Gorm, ProjectCentre, etc. will

Re: [Debian GNUstep maintainers] GDL2 Release for Debian Lenny

2008-06-08 Thread Hubert Chathi
Yavor Doganov wrote: Hubert Chathi wrote: Perhaps we should take a quick poll. This is an excellent idea, but how do you expect to do it? The lists this discussion is being carried on have limited audience. Of course the opinion of the gnustep-dev subscribers is valuable

Re: GDL2 Release for Debian Lenny

2008-06-07 Thread Hubert Chathi
a bug against GCC too. -- Hubert Chathi [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Jabber: [EMAIL PROTECTED] PGP/GnuPG key: 1024D/124B61FA http://www.uhoreg.ca/ Fingerprint: 96C5 012F 5F74 A5F7 1FF7 5291 AF29 C719 124B 61FA ___ Gnustep-dev mailing list Gnustep-dev

window focusing issues

2008-05-08 Thread Hubert Chathi
the problem in, if it only happens in certain applications - steps to reproduce (what were you doing when you noticed the issue) - any bundles (e.g. camaelon, wildmenus) that you have loaded Thank you. -- Hubert Chathi - Email/Jabber: [EMAIL PROTECTED] - http://www.uhoreg.ca/ PGP/GnuPG key: 1024D

Re: GPLv2 licensing issues

2008-04-30 Thread Hubert Chathi
On Fri, 11 Apr 2008 16:14:57 -0700 (PDT), Gregory John Casamento [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: All, I've written Brett Smith at the FSF to ask about exceptions or any possible solutions to the issues we're discussing. I will post relevant points when he replies to my email. Any news on this?

Re: GSoC participant

2008-04-23 Thread Hubert Chathi
On Thu, 24 Apr 2008 00:32:20 +0200 (CEST), Nicola Pero [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: Well. let's start simpler. Use WindowMaker. official windowmanager. Set it to have OpenStep behaviour. You still have focus problems. SO before accomodating foreign stuff, the standard neets to work reliably.

Re: GSoC participant

2008-04-22 Thread Hubert Chathi
I'm another GSoC participant. My project is Addressing desktop integration issues or something like that. It's a bit of an open-ended project, since there are so many things that I could work on, and so it will depend on what Fred and I decide I should work on. However, initial ideas are: -

Re: GPLv2 licensing issues

2008-04-10 Thread Hubert Chathi
Graham J. Lee wrote: Presumably, distributing binaries linked against earlier, pre-LGPLv3 GNUstep libraries is acceptable too (whether or not anyone likes the idea); I guess the licence change wasn't propagated back through the SCM history to retroactively apply to earlier revisions of

Re: Fwd: GPLv2 licensing issues

2008-04-10 Thread Hubert Chathi
On Thu, 10 Apr 2008 12:40:34 -0700, Matt Rice [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: On Thu, Apr 10, 2008 at 12:16 PM, Fred Kiefer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am still not sure whether this problem actually exists. As far as I understand the GPL it only transfers to libraries that are statically linked to

Re: GPLv2 licensing issues

2008-04-10 Thread Hubert Chathi
On Thu, 10 Apr 2008 19:11:22 -0400, Hubert Chathi [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: On Fri, 11 Apr 2008 01:13:32 +0200, Alexander Malmberg [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: Hubert Chathi wrote: - terminal.app If the GPL2/LGPL3 problems are real, this is problematic for Terminal. The vt100 parsing code

Re: Fwd: GPLv2 licensing issues

2008-04-10 Thread Hubert Chathi
On Thu, 10 Apr 2008 18:12:17 -0500, Stefan Bidigaray [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: I think another good FAQ question to look at is: *Can I release a program under the GPL which I developed using non-free tools?* [...] However, if you link non-free libraries with the source code, that would be an

Re: GNUstep summer of code

2008-03-26 Thread Hubert Chathi
On Wed, 26 Mar 2008 10:02:33 -0600, Adam Fedor [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: Hubert has submitted an application for the GNUstep Summer of Code: http://code.google.com/soc/2008/gnustep/open.html Please add some comments there if you think there are some improvements to be made to the application.

Re: GSOC: desktop integration

2008-03-24 Thread Hubert Chathi
aren't going to install a new WM just to try out a program. -- Hubert Chathi - 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: GSOC: desktop integration

2008-03-23 Thread Hubert Chathi
On Sat, 22 Mar 2008 12:57:32 -0800, Matt Rice [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: On Sat, Mar 22, 2008 at 12:02 PM, Hubert Chathi [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi all, I'm looking at applying for Google's SOC this year. I'm interested in looking at GNU/Linux desktop integration issues. So I'd like

GSOC: desktop integration

2008-03-22 Thread Hubert Chathi
Hi all, I'm looking at applying for Google's SOC this year. I'm interested in looking at GNU/Linux desktop integration issues. So I'd like to look at: - the window focusing issues, and making GNUstep work well in all window managers - looking at which freedesktop.org standards it would make

Re: Next release

2008-03-06 Thread Hubert Chathi
Adam Fedor wrote: On Mar 3, 2008, at 9:28 AM, Hubert Chathi wrote: I was intending on tracking the GNUstep unstable branch in Debian experimental, but we currently have some unresolved issues regarding ffcall/libffi. I think tracking unstable would be a good idea. OK, I will work

Re: Next release

2008-03-03 Thread Hubert Chathi
, at least.) So, is it better to track stable or unstable at this point? Hubert (with his Debian Developer hat on) -- Hubert Chathi [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Jabber: [EMAIL PROTECTED] PGP/GnuPG key: 1024D/124B61FA http://www.uhoreg.ca/ Fingerprint: 96C5 012F 5F74 A5F7 1FF7 5291 AF29 C719 124B

Re: Next release

2008-03-03 Thread Hubert Chathi
the GNUstep unstable branch in Debian experimental, but we currently have some unresolved issues regarding ffcall/libffi. By the way, if anyone wants to help with GNUstep packages, we can always use help. -- Hubert Chathi [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Jabber: [EMAIL PROTECTED] PGP/GnuPG key: 1024D/124B61FA

Re: amd64 and libffi

2008-02-29 Thread Hubert Chathi
On Mon, 25 Feb 2008 15:12:34 -0500, Hubert Chathi [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: [...] (On the other hand, GNUstep programs apparently don't work with ffcall on Opterons, since ffcall doesn't seem to play well with the NX bit, apparently.) Apparently, I may be wrong about this. The problems

amd64 and libffi

2008-02-26 Thread Hubert Chathi
.) Unfortunately, I don't have an amd64 to try things out for myself. Does anyone have any experience with libffi under amd64? -- Hubert Chathi [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Jabber: [EMAIL PROTECTED] PGP/GnuPG key: 1024D/124B61FA http://www.uhoreg.ca/ Fingerprint: 96C5 012F 5F74 A5F7 1FF7 5291 AF29 C719 124B