Re: cvs checkout/configure problem

2004-01-21 Thread David A. Desrosiers
> so - something wrong with the autogen or configure scripts? Did you run autoreconf in the viewer subdirectory? d. ___ plucker-dev mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.rubberchicken.org/mailman/listinfo/plucker-dev

Re: DRM

2004-01-19 Thread David A. Desrosiers
> (Current Plucker DRM is, I take it, not very good, since one could > always compile a custom version of Plucker that instead of loading the > hotsync name from the OS has the hotsync name hardcoded.) Plucker's Python parser already has a "DRM-like" feature. We talked about this a year o

Re: Plucker Plugin Interface

2004-01-18 Thread David A. Desrosiers
> This is a very limited appeal plugin that shouldn't be in the source > tree, but I'd like to have it to make some French dictionaries usable > with early modern texts that have inconsistent accentuation.) I agree. There are probably more plusses than minuses. I'm just being the Devil's

Re: Plucker Plugin Interface

2004-01-18 Thread David A. Desrosiers
> 1. Is there any way of adding private plugins that can be distributed >separately and don't have to be merged into the PPI executable? > > 2. Is the interface sufficient to allow for different kinds of >data/commands to be passed, beyond a simple lookup? A possible #3, based on

Re: Search bug

2004-01-12 Thread David A. Desrosiers
> Btw, I tried to submit the bug today but the plkr.org web site was all > messed up...maybe I caught it in the middle of server update :) Can you define "all messed up"? d. ___ plucker-dev mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.rubberchi

Re: AbsoluteWord

2004-01-06 Thread David A. Desrosiers
> At the risk of sparking a flame war, "Open Source software" has the > decided advantage over "Free Software" in this regard, given that it is > pronounced differently than "free software." Except that "Free Software" and "Open Source" are two completely different terms, describing two c

Re: AbsoluteWord

2004-01-06 Thread David A. Desrosiers
> I wish they wouldn't call Plucker "freeware"; it's free software. More specifically, "Free Software". I've been dealing with these, and similar issues lately, with the recent discovery of 4 commercial companies using pilot-link directly in their commercial "non-free" products.

ptorrent, download .prc/.pdb directly into your Palm

2004-01-02 Thread David A. Desrosiers
For those with "live" networked Palm devices, you can now download .prc and .pdb files _directly_ onto your Palm device from the Palm itself, using a tool I just found called 'ptorrent'. It's a bit rough around the edges, but if you load it up, and point it to a Plucker .pdb file (such as

Re: Support for unit test using PalmCUnit

2003-12-31 Thread David A. Desrosiers
> I don't think we have to build any viewer that includes PalmCUnit > support. It's only for developers and they can build their own > version... Right, not specifically that, but the other options as well (word complete on, off, specific SDKs, debug vs. non-debug, etc.). d. ___

Re: dict lookup committed

2003-12-31 Thread David A. Desrosiers
> This is very nice. I hope we'll put a link to RL on our web page. How about a news article _and_ a link to RL? Anyone care to do some testing and write up a news article with some screenshots, howto, etc. for the site? Just send me the bits and I'll post it up there. d. __

Re: Support for unit test using PalmCUnit

2003-12-31 Thread David A. Desrosiers
> That will prevent anyone from using the viewer unless there also is a > version without PalmCUnit support ;-) DOH! Ok, let me see if I can break this down a bit more in the snapshot builds to build viewers with different capabilities. Not today though =) I'll take the PalmCUnit out for

Re: dict lookup committed

2003-12-31 Thread David A. Desrosiers
> I wonder if it should be included in the cvs snapshot builds so that we > could get wider testing. Done. Hourly snapshots now include PalmCUnit support and word-lookup. I've also indicated on the snaps page which options are being used to build the snapshots, so others can be aware of w

Re: Support for unit test using PalmCUnit

2003-12-31 Thread David A. Desrosiers
> At the moment you have to apply the attached patch to the PalmCUnit > code, but I will contact the current maintainer of PalmCUnit and check > if he could make these minor changes to the main source code. If not, > then I will add the patch to CVS. For those doing this on Unix/POSIX sys

Re: fetching extra URLs/forms

2003-12-22 Thread David A. Desrosiers
> You're much more ambitious than I. I've thought this out quite a bit over the last 5 years =) > My plan had been to read the MemoPad database on the desktop. Not a good idea, generally, because the one on the desktop will ALWAYS be "older" than the one on the Palm, especially

Re: Fwd: Returned mail: delivery problems encountered

2003-12-21 Thread David A. Desrosiers
> Looks like the bug reporting addy is dead, just trying this in the hope > of some resolution to my problem. Use the online bugtracker. http://bugs.plkr.org/ d. ___ plucker-dev mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.rubberchicke

Re: Question about Plucker

2003-12-21 Thread David A. Desrosiers
> If yes, could you tell me which tool I have to use and how to proceed? Use 'explode' and 'unpluck' in the tools subdirectory to turn the .pdb back into HTML (assuming it doesn't have an owner_id set, of course). The HTML you get back is not the same as what was used to create it, it is

Re: onboard parsing

2003-12-19 Thread David A. Desrosiers
> A task on my todo list for next year (unless someone beats me to it - > and they might) is to automatically fetch any urls exported to memopad. > This would probably work like AvantGos form manager, which is not > optimal, but does work. Based on this approach, my concerns have always b

Re: plucker crash

2003-12-19 Thread David A. Desrosiers
> 158 collected, 1445 to do > Processing http://pokegym.net/search.php?searchid=7513... Was the url you were trying to fetch actually the one shown above? http://pokegym.net/search.php?searchid=7513 ..or was that a sub-url of a different parent that linked it?

Re: buglist policy

2003-12-18 Thread David A. Desrosiers
> If so, I'm asking for an upgrade for jimj from Reporter to (something > that can mark bugs resolved). I upgraded you to "Developer" a few days ago, and added you to the "Plucker" project, so you can get notifications at each bug modification, etc. (you can change your notifications in y

Re: tungsten t2: plucker also doesnt work with arm zlib

2003-12-18 Thread David A. Desrosiers
> ive got a tungsten t2 and starting plucker just gives me a failure > message that "this device doesnt support zlib library" or sth. similar. > so i installed now the arm port of the zlib library, but it still doesnt > work. any suggestions ?? Are you using version 1.6.1 of the viewer? I

Re: behavior enhancements

2003-12-15 Thread David A. Desrosiers
> 2. Would it be possible to link 'left' and 'right' button of fiveway > selector to 'previous category' and 'next category' in library view? > This would be the same behavior as in T3's launcher. This way it's > easy to change categories with one hand. I would have to disagre

Interesting Plucker anomaly

2003-11-24 Thread David A. Desrosiers
I just found a very odd anomaly in 1.6.1 and the snaps. If you build a .pdb and use --no-urlinfo, and tap on an external link, you get the External link form, with a "URL:" at the bottom... but the field to the right of it... is editable. It doesn't actually DO anything, but I can

Re: TextParser patch - colors

2003-11-21 Thread David A. Desrosiers
> This adds renames the Colornames dictionary to Colornames_strict, and adds > a Colornames_SVG dictionary which it uses by default. Can you make the patch an attachment to the messages, so that wrapping doesn't screw up the intended format of the patch? d. _

Re: Submitting patches

2003-11-21 Thread David A. Desrosiers
> Post to this list? Upload to the wiki? Create a bug and upload the patch > there? Post to plucker-dev, and reference the appropriate bug report # (if one exists that the patch corrects), or just post here if it adds/corrects a feature that has no associated bug report. If it is import

Re: openurls.plkr.org

2003-11-21 Thread David A. Desrosiers
> How hard would it be to mass-convert the existing channels, so that each > channel is its own page, and the categorization is by Category Pages. That was part of the reason for the move from the "old" wiki to this version.. a SQL backend. The old wiki software I was using (forget which

Re: Is there a plucker wiki?

2003-11-11 Thread David A. Desrosiers
(cc'd back to plucker-list, to encourage more helpers) > There is now. http://wiki.plkr.org/ I've just populated the wiki with two items; the faq, and a brief description about how to identify and report bugs. Feel free to update it as necessary. The FAQ was a bit

Re: Is there a plucker wiki?

2003-11-11 Thread David A. Desrosiers
There is now. http://wiki.plkr.org/ > Frozentitan (Joseph) just posted a very useful step-by-step on getting > plucker set up with sitescooper. Very nice. Let's capture it in a HOWTO section of the wiki. I've repeatedly asked for people to come up with "Articles" for the site, so

[ANN] Plucker 1.6.1 is out, with many bugs and issues fixed...

2003-11-09 Thread David A. Desrosiers
PRESS RELEASE Sunday November 9, 2003 http://www.plkr.org/index.plkr?a=news&article=35 Plucker 1.6.1 is now available, and follows closely on the tails of Plucker 1.6, and closes a lot of open issues reported by users and other developers working with Plucker and Plucker projects.

Plucker 1.6.1 torrents, prior to release

2003-11-08 Thread David A. Desrosiers
It's that magical time again.. time to seed the torrents and mirrors with the new Plucker 1.6.1 releases. Feel free to grab the zip-o-torrents at: http://downloads.plkr.org/plkr.org.torrents.zip Please unpack it, and run your local seeding client across it. Those

Re: jpeg support

2003-10-20 Thread David A. Desrosiers
> Are there any thoughts of including jpeg support in a future version? > There is an armlet jpeg library, and there is, I think, a slow 68k > library, and Sony OS5 units have a built-in library. The only reservation I would have (well, two) is that the more separate .prc files we have, t

Re: Plucker HiRes Wishlist Additions

2003-10-20 Thread David A. Desrosiers
> It would be great if the next release allowed the T3 to use full screen in > 320x480 mode. At the moment, it works well in 320x320 mode, but it does > not allow the hiding of the soft graffiti area to give a 320x480 screen > area. The SDK with DIA support wasn't out in time for the 1.6

Oops, typo on the Plucker Desktop torrent link!

2003-10-19 Thread David A. Desrosiers
We're all human, including myself. I made a small typo on the last message regarding the location of the Plucker Desktop for Windows .torrent link. The correct link should have been: http://torrents.plkr.org/plucker_desktop_setup_1.6.0.0.zip.torrent Sorry about that.

New Plucker Desktop 1.6.0.0 torrents available!

2003-10-18 Thread David A. Desrosiers
Plucker Desktop 1.6.0.0 for OSX http://torrents.plkr.org/Plucker_1.6.0.0.dmg.torrent Plucker Desktop 1.6.0.0 for Windows http://torrents.plkr.org/plucker_desktop_setup_1.6.0.0.exe.torrent Thanks to Robert O'Connor for getting this updated quickly for the

Plucker 1.6 Released

2003-10-16 Thread David A. Desrosiers
October 15, 2003 http://www.plkr.org/index.plkr?a=news&article=33 PRESS RELEASE Happy 5th Anniversary, Plucker! Just 5 years ago yesterday, Plucker was released for the first time to the public. And now, Plucker 1.6 is out, and is the best release thus far. There are many new fe

Re: Calling all mirrors! We have a release next week...

2003-10-16 Thread David A. Desrosiers
> Please post a zipfile of the viewer & Palm-side components as well; > I'm using JPluckX, and want to get 1.6 (hoping it fixes my MacSurfer PDB > crash), but would rather not get the whole thing from the busy DL servers. plucker-1.6.zip has been up on the site since yesterday, and

Plucker 1.6 torrents now available to seed mirrors

2003-10-15 Thread David A. Desrosiers
The new 1.6 torrents are up. For mirrors and those who are helping out with BitTorrent, please re-fetch the following file, which now contains the Plucker 1.6 torrents, and removes the 1.4beta and 1.5 torrents: http://downloads.plkr.org/plkr.org.torrents.zip Unpack this i

Re: Calling all mirrors! We have a release next week...

2003-10-11 Thread David A. Desrosiers
> We have an incoming out-of-university connections block on our connection. > I suppose that would make helping out impossible, right? It certainly sounds like it. No worries, you contribute in other valuable ways =) d. ___ plucker-

Calling all mirrors! We have a release next week...

2003-10-11 Thread David A. Desrosiers
Anyone who is on a decent dedicated connection (or even broadband) and wants to help out with the release of Plucker 1.6 next week and over the next month or so (or until the downloaders calm down a bit), please grab the following file: http://downloads.plkr.org/plkr.org.torrents.

Re: website problems

2003-10-08 Thread David A. Desrosiers
> This may well be a problem; there were several days when I couldn't reach > plkr.org at all, but it seems to have resolved itself. Probably during the transition between networks. We were down for about 22 hours total, because the provider cut the lines one day earlier than scheduled. D

Re: Viewer 1.4 source archive?

2003-10-07 Thread David A. Desrosiers
> Could a Viewer 1.4 source archive be made available? I've been trying to > check out the source from CVS for the last few days, but I only get > connection timeouts. The cvs is fine. Are you sure you're using the right IP, or that your firewall/proxy doesn't have it cached at some incor

Re: Limit on number of pages plucked? (Error code=514)

2003-10-03 Thread David A. Desrosiers
> I know I'm not qualified to assess the meaning of that but, just in case > it helps, since 16k = 16x1024 = 163840 and I count 25 or so 30k+ pages, > if there actually are more like 48 or so, and we add that to our 16326 > number from below, we come out awfully close to 16k, a limit which would >

Re: Limit on number of pages plucked? (Error code=514)

2003-10-03 Thread David A. Desrosiers
> Is there any other piece of data we could provide, other than shipping > you an archive of all the pages we're trying to pluck (which would be > difficult but not impossible, logistically)? Can you just scramble the content in a non-reversible way, and ship those pages instead? I unders

Re: qvga

2003-09-22 Thread David A. Desrosiers
> Of course, there isn't a QVGA device shipping yet. :-) That's ok, give Sony a week or two, they'll have one out (and break their botched implementation of the HotSync protocol again, like they seem to have done on the UX50). The Alphasmart Dana is 160x560. Do we scale to that y

Re: 480x320 on Clie UX50

2003-09-19 Thread David A. Desrosiers
> I just grabbed last night's snapshot and the problem is gone. Which will > make it particularly hard to reproduce. It was in the versions from May > and mid-August, but that's moot now. You realize you're addressing these messages to 'plucker-dev' twice in every email you send? The who

Re: fiveway question

2003-09-17 Thread David A. Desrosiers
> I guess I'm going to have to have two different bits of rotation code, one > which rotates keyboard arrow keys and the other which rotates FiveWay > presses. Here's the keycodes from my exact Tungsten T2: chr keyCode modifiers Up 0x000B 0x0001

Re: fiveway question

2003-09-17 Thread David A. Desrosiers
> On my Tungsten C, up/down are just the top and bottom of the "5-way > navigator". Hence why the industry calls it a "D-Pad" or "Directional Pad". d. ___ plucker-dev mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.rubberchicken.org/mailman/listin

Re: Help

2003-09-15 Thread David A. Desrosiers
> We realy aprecciate if you can send us the SysZLib.prc for Palm OS 3.5.0 > of the Vx handheld, beacuse we canĀ“t run the Plucker utilities in this > handheld. You need to make sure you are running the right version of Plucker (1.4 or later), and that you have installed the right version

Re: bugs in cvs

2003-09-09 Thread David A. Desrosiers
> (T|T, v2003-08-17-cvs, downloaded snapshot yesterday) DOH! Thanks for catching another bug in the build scripts. Apparently the version stuff was yanked out and stopped around the 17th of last month. I just fixed it, and now hourly snaps should reflect the actual date of t

Re: bug 764

2003-08-19 Thread David A. Desrosiers
> I'd like to fix bug 764, but I can't figure out what the "directional > rocker" is. Is this the FiveWay controller? Yes, the circular d-pad (directional pad). This presents an interesting issue, because there is no left/right direction on non-OS5 Palm devices. Is there a way t

Re: Plucker Download

2003-08-04 Thread David A. Desrosiers
> I'm trying to get a copy of Plucker, but the bitTorrent link won't work, > so I can't even start the download. Not enough detail. What do you mean "won't work"? What didn't work? > And 1.6 Mb of server space is really cheap, you could have several copies > on various free servers to sp

Re: mozpluck.pl does nto work

2003-08-03 Thread David A. Desrosiers
> Subject : Re: mozpluck.pl does nto work ^^^ Neither does your spellchecker ;) ___ plucker-dev mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.rubberchicken.org/mailman/listinfo/plucker-dev

Re: Plucker 1.4, PalmGear and FreewarePalm

2003-08-01 Thread David A. Desrosiers
> I'm not so sure it would be wise to wait for that; I've published a couple > of e-books in PalmGear and the freewarepalm site didn't change its > description after I changed the PalmGear one. Even when I requested > manually a change, I didn't have much luck getting it changed in freeware > palm

Re: Plucker 1.4, PalmGear and FreewarePalm

2003-07-31 Thread David A. Desrosiers
> Somebody from the team should notify palmgear.com [1] and freewarepalm.com > that multi-image support and continuous pages are NOT in this release. I've updated the description on Palmgear, and I think freewarepalm pulls their content from Palmgear anyway (the wording on freewarepalm wa

Re: Plucker 1.4, PalmGear and FreewarePalm

2003-07-31 Thread David A. Desrosiers
> Somebody from the team should notify palmgear.com [1] and freewarepalm.com > that multi-image support and continuous pages are NOT in this release. So basically the only new userland feature in 1.4 is table support? Why are we getting slammed so hard for it then? I'll have to g

Plucker BitTorrent mini-FAQ

2003-07-30 Thread David A. Desrosiers
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 This is an attempt to try to explain what BitTorrent is, and why the latest version of Plucker, 1.4, is being distributed in this format as well as the other formats. Pardon the roughness of this, I came up with it on the fly. This is in response to

Re: next step

2003-07-30 Thread David A. Desrosiers
> And let the servers cool down! 8^) (Nervously blowing on the disk drives) "No, we're fine, everything's fine.." I'm with Mike on this, I had no idea 1.4 was this popular, and officially, we haven't even made a public release/announcement yet. The only thing I can figur

Re: next step

2003-07-30 Thread David A. Desrosiers
> Considering the amount of downloads we might want to wait a week or two > before we release a first 1.5 version, though ;-) I think we're doing good now that the majority of "BIG" downloads are out of the way (fingers crossed). I've started pushing the files back on the announce sites t

Re: Plucker 1.4 Beta 1

2003-07-30 Thread David A. Desrosiers
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 > Maybe we should try to find some mirror sites. I never thought Plucker > would be *that* popular ;-) I'm working on that as we speak, actually. I have a couple of other contacts that may be able to lend us some disk and bandwidth. I'll keep

Re: Plucker 1.4 Beta 1

2003-07-30 Thread David A. Desrosiers
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Note: This applies to 1.4 as well as 1.4 beta 1. > Since your already using Python, maybe you should give Bram Cohen's > BitTorrent a try?? It could share the load between all the downloaders. I've configured BitTorrent on the server

Re: Plucker 1.4 Beta 1

2003-07-30 Thread David A. Desrosiers
> I think it is exactly what you are looking for! A couple of reasons: 1.) It's currently written in Python, and the other working port is in Java. Both of these require a lot of overhead to run as a aemon process on the server. 2.) BitTorrent wor

Re: Featuremania (was: handera mem leaks)

2003-07-26 Thread David A. Desrosiers
> Question: Maybe we should remove the lo-res fonts from the hi-res version? > If one is getting the hi-res version, one obviously doesn't need them. How about just --enable-light, --enable-hires, --enable-everything? ___ plucker-dev mailing li

Re: Server-side distilling

2003-07-23 Thread David A. Desrosiers
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 > Perhaps I am misunderstanding something (and I could believe that). > Isn't a network HotSync an operation which will take everything in the > Palm and attempt to synchronize it, rather than just a small subset (e.g > Plucker files). No, yo

Re: Server-side distilling

2003-07-22 Thread David A. Desrosiers
> No distilling software at all, unless they want to download it and have > complete control. I know a lot of Palm users are technical sorts, but not > all are and simplifying their usage is always a good thing. You're running Linux, so why not just use pilot-link's method of doing this,

Re: MemoURL extension for viewer

2003-07-13 Thread David A. Desrosiers
> I can't see this in the distribution or CVS. Where is it? Attached. d. pluckerlinks.c.gz Description: Binary data

Re: MemoURL extension for viewer

2003-07-10 Thread David A. Desrosiers
> Free software means GPL, right? Definately not, and making that assumption (esp. if you use it in a commercial or proprietary setting) can really get ugly. See here for more: http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/license-list.html > But currently MemoURL software and conduit are NOT G

Re: plucker/iSilo/AvantGo

2003-07-08 Thread David A. Desrosiers
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 > As Chris Pepper said, I don't want to fork the chart. I would be willing > to maintain it, if it could be hosted at (or at least linked from) > plkr.org directly, so that people can find it. Feel free to make a final copy, and draft up a fe

Re: Feature matrix (was Re: www.plkr.org: Plucker vs. AvantGo)

2003-07-08 Thread David A. Desrosiers
> Well, if I am not mistaken, it's all in HEAD in CVS now, so as soon as the > daily snapshot make is fixed, it will be available daily on plkr.org, no? I managed to solve the bug in the Makefile regarding the fontconv issue, but there's still an open issue prohibiting the hourly snapshot

Re: www.plkr.org: Plucker vs. AvantGo

2003-07-07 Thread David A. Desrosiers
> I use Plucker and iSilo. I downloaded your comparison matrix, added a > couple of features at the bottom, and made a couple corrections. (e.g. > AvantGo OS5 support is out of beta now.) Things I couldn't answer > definitively include "???" in their answer. Great work, I've updated my

RE: www.plkr.org: Plucker vs. AvantGo

2003-07-04 Thread David A. Desrosiers
> One thing that's missing is that AvantGo has an on-line browsing mode, > whereas Plucker doesn't. Including some places where Plucker isn't as > good as AvantGo will help to impart the illusion of impartiality. ;) You didn't read down far enough, did you see the "Online Mode" section

Re: www.plkr.org: Plucker vs. AvantGo

2003-07-04 Thread David A. Desrosiers
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 > I've just read > & 1.2, and am indeed interested in Plucker to replace AvantGo (which > was free for personal use, until it broke for Palm Desktop 4/X). This might help a bit: ht

HarvestMan Python-based web crawler

2003-06-28 Thread David A. Desrosiers
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Something I just found on freshmeat. Might be useful to the Python distiller development team here: http://members.lycos.co.uk/anandpillai/ d. perldoc -qa.j | perl -lpe '($_)=m("(.*)")' -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG

Re: linking to full size images

2003-06-20 Thread David A. Desrosiers
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 > I am have a problem with linking to full size images. It only seems to be > working sporadically. I think think that I got it to work once. Is there > something wrong with my settings? I embedded an image with my settings. > Why does it only work oc

Re: Plucker - stanard txt-doc files not visible.

2003-06-16 Thread David A. Desrosiers
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 > Am I doing something wrong? Nope, Plucker reads only Plucker-format documents. d. perldoc -qa.j | perl -lpe '($_)=m("(.*)")' -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.2.2 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE+7aY/kRQERnB1rkoRAtO6AJ4iQ23sVhGFllk5

RE: new unofficial hires prc ready

2003-06-11 Thread David A. Desrosiers
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 > I am just suggesting that there are a lot of uses for being able to run > all the pages through a filter prior to processing. You should be using SiteScooper, and outputting into Plucker then. > Another use might be if each pages in the ch

RE: new unofficial hires prc ready

2003-06-11 Thread David A. Desrosiers
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 > (I think the rest of the distiller doesn't mind just a instead of > ) That would be the equivalent of turning into . Please understand that the tag is NOT the same thing as , and translating two tags to one tag is most-cer

Re: Exclude/include links

2003-05-30 Thread David A. Desrosiers
> Yes, but you can't make P1, P2 or P3 the home page, which is what > Alexendar wants (if I understand it correctly). One of each, or three homepages? Why not just bookmark them inside the document, or fetch them all separately and set them launchable? No magic there. I'm not familiar wit

Re: Exclude/include links (was: getting changes in (and UTF-8))

2003-05-30 Thread David A. Desrosiers
> However, this goes against the Plucker format, which dicates a > hierarchical, rather than a linear, structure. I.e. there is just > one"home" record and through that you branch out to the other pages. Not at all. This is why the home.html construct works (and it's the foundation that P

Re: Exclude/include links (was: getting changes in (and UTF-8))

2003-05-30 Thread David A. Desrosiers
> I don't think similar functionality exists in Plucker. We are not iSilo. We don't try to be like them. d. ___ plucker-dev mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.rubberchicken.org/mailman/listinfo/plucker-dev

Re: Vade Mecum 0.1

2003-05-29 Thread David A. Desrosiers
> The source code (eVC3) and the binary (ARM processors only, sorry) are > available at: For those who might be curious, "Vade Mecum" means "go with me" in Latin, or "accompany me on my journey" in the richer context. There is another web-based project called the "Web Vade Mecum" as well,

Re: Vade Mecum 0.1

2003-05-29 Thread David A. Desrosiers
> If this list is not appropriate for announcements like this, please let me > know... And on a related note, should I post something to plucker-list, or > would that be a bad idea? plucker-announce is probably the right venue for it, but moderated. d. _

Re: proposed plucker:// extention code

2003-05-29 Thread David A. Desrosiers
> I've hacked out some code in perl (I don't know python, but they're very > close, so a port should be trivial) to implement the --install switch to > enable plucker:// protocol system from a windows browser. Here is the code > (it's very short): Here's an untested version (I usually get

Re: getting changes in

2003-05-29 Thread David A. Desrosiers
> What is the process for getting a change into CVS? Send your relevant patch to the maintainer of the code that patch addresses, and let them test/apply/commit it. > Short of that, what is the process for being able to update a supposedly > resolved bug? Click on "Update", and

Re: python distiller questions

2003-05-29 Thread David A. Desrosiers
> There isn't a newer perl distiller, is there? Not yet, I've revived it, and have been banging on it furiously over the last month. No ETA on a release yet, and the first release most-likely won't work perfectly under Windows. What site are you hitting with the Python distiller?

Download stats (was Re: Hourly Plucker Viewer Snapshots/Bug Reporting)

2003-04-02 Thread David A. Desrosiers
> Please do not link to these snapshots directly, bandwidth is already > tightly constrained as it is (we've served 341,714,426,123 bytes of > Plucker downloads, not including cvs checkouts and snapshots since > 9/Feb/2003), so please be considerate of the bandwidth usage. Sorry, my count

Hourly Plucker Viewer Snapshots/Bug Reporting

2003-04-02 Thread David A. Desrosiers
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Before you read on, please note that *ANY* snapshot build is to be treated as unstable code. Snapshot builds are guaranteed to do exactly nothing, and may work.. or may not, but your feedback is useful, as long as you provide useful, accurate,

Re: configure/makefile questions...

2003-04-02 Thread David A. Desrosiers
> Hi there all. First, please don't hijack an existing message to create a new message. It screws up threading, and makes it very hard to maintain the conversation when the topic keeps changing inside the same context. I've corrected it here, so please put replies to this subject under th

Re: Compiling viewer under cygwin

2003-03-30 Thread David A. Desrosiers
> 1. viewer doesn't compile if newest version of automake/autoconf is used. It compiles perfectly with the latest versions of each (autoconf 2.57 and automake 1.7) here on Linux and BSD. I had some trouble compiling it with 2.13 on Linux, so I bumped them up. This configuration is what I'

Re: Desktop: Follow only links that are sub-folders of the rootsource paths checkbox

2003-03-29 Thread David A. Desrosiers
> I think there's already a --stay-below=path option to plucker-build, so if > Plucker Desktop uses that, it should even not be too hard to implement. > It may be worth having a --stay-below-home flag added to plucker-build. > What do others think? I've had good success with the combinati

Re: Global Search in Viewer ?

2003-03-28 Thread David A. Desrosiers
> - Global search of all documents and channels in the viewer library, > rather than merely a search of the currently open document. I'm not sure how in-depth Matto's search was, but I know the version I tested several months ago had a progress indicator of how many pages it was searching

Re: Warning, prc-tools 2.2.90 does not cleanly build Plucker

2003-03-26 Thread David A. Desrosiers
> So, the c pre-processor has been replace by the c++ compiler? .. that > doesn't make sence.. You're right, my bad, but the symlink to ../bin/cpp was missing from 2.2.90, because the cpp binary itself is gone. YIKES! John? What happened? d.

Warning, prc-tools 2.2.90 does not cleanly build Plucker

2003-03-26 Thread David A. Desrosiers
Just a quick note to anyone hoping to build Plucker with prc-tools 2.2.90.. the m68k-palmos-cpp binary has been removed from the package, and is now replaced by m68k-palmos-c++, but it doesn't quite work the same way as the -cpp version in 2.0.92. Also, at least in my experience here, it f

Re: HIRES: Sony Clie TG-50 support

2003-03-24 Thread David A. Desrosiers
> I just downloaded the hires version 20030222-am and it appears that on my > new TG-50 it is not displaying in hires mode compared to the screenshots > at hires.plkr.org. You may have already known this, but since the TG-50 > is a new OS 5 device I thought I would ask. I think, if rumor

Re: Plucker Desktop Viewer ??

2003-03-23 Thread David A. Desrosiers
> I forget the status of why we aren't calling them somefile.plkr.pdb, > similar to somefile.tar.gz or somefile.i386.rpm As I recall, the issue was based around the fact that the default setup on Windows, is to NOT show the file "extension" to the user in their file manager. This is why e

Re: CVS Down

2003-03-21 Thread David A. Desrosiers
> I also can't download an hourly snapshot because those are just coming out > empty (45 bytes long appears to be the shortest you can possibly make a > tarball) A small permissions problem, and has been fixed. Please try again. d. ___ plucke

Re: How about news.plkr.org?

2003-03-20 Thread David A. Desrosiers
> Are these newsgroups available to other news servers? Currently, no. They are nothing more than news article renditions of the mailing list posts, and having them replicated wouldn't be useful, since posting is not allowed. > I use an academic news server out of Germany, can I request

Re: How about news.plkr.org?

2003-03-20 Thread David A. Desrosiers
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 > I don't know if David has resources to handle it but I can think of a > couple of advantages: Here's the update for today: news.plkr.org is up, with the historical data of all of the previous Plucker messages (that I had online, da

Re: Advantages to Plucker I can cite ?

2003-03-10 Thread David A. Desrosiers
> Are there any areas I can cite, where Plucker has advantages over Isilo? Having never used iSilo, I can only point you to the Plucker vs. AvantGo rundown I did awhile back. If you want to add the iSilo bits, I'll add a third column there for that as well. http://plkr.org/a-vs-p

Re: proposed solution to 64k image limitation

2003-03-10 Thread David A. Desrosiers
> This means the user has to pass a target resolution to the parser. Which is exactly why I suggested doing it in the viewer directly. d. ___ plucker-dev mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.rubberchicken.org/mailman/listinfo/plucker-d

RE: Deleting documents while set to Manual update

2003-03-09 Thread David A. Desrosiers
> If you do a delete from the document list _within_ the viewer, no need: > the doc list update is done regardless of how your update prefrence is > set. Oddly, this is not how it works in the emulator. If you delete a document in the Document Library, the list is not updated. On a real d

Re: proposed solution to 64k image limitation

2003-03-09 Thread David A. Desrosiers
> So in effect Adam's solution has the limitation that images can only be > 30K pixels wide in the most extreme case(with 16bpp). That's about 9 > screens across on a high-res device. Images this wide will lead to > gigantic PDBs, so in practice you won't even go near this limit. Anyway, > you're

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