Re: gdselect alpha 3

1998-10-16 Thread Jason Gunthorpe
Hmm, I think this is my first comment on this.. On Thu, 15 Oct 1998, Tom Lees wrote: On Wed, Oct 14, 1998 at 02:29:04PM -0700, Joey Hess wrote: Are there any plans to merge this with apt? Seems gdselect has the frontend, and apt has the backend. Well, I could do with some apt in-built

Re: gdselect alpha 3

1998-10-16 Thread Michael Stone
Quoting Jason Gunthorpe ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): I think this idea of 'lets quickly do something fast' is ill concieved and is ultimately going to hurt our image. I've looked at the latest version, it looks rather pretty, it's slightly more functional than dselect but that's about it.. It doesn't

Re: gdselect alpha 3

1998-10-16 Thread Manoj Srivastava
Hi, Michael == Michael Stone [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Michael Quoting Jason Gunthorpe ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): I think this idea of 'lets quickly do something fast' is ill concieved and is ultimately going to hurt our image. I've looked at the latest version, it looks rather pretty, it's

Re: gdselect alpha 3

1998-10-16 Thread Tom Lees
On Thu, Oct 15, 1998 at 05:52:59PM -0600, Jason Gunthorpe wrote: Hmm, I think this is my first comment on this.. On Thu, 15 Oct 1998, Tom Lees wrote: On Wed, Oct 14, 1998 at 02:29:04PM -0700, Joey Hess wrote: Are there any plans to merge this with apt? Seems gdselect has the

Re: gdselect alpha 3

1998-10-16 Thread Michael Stone
Quoting Manoj Srivastava ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): Michael == Michael Stone [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Michael Quoting Jason Gunthorpe ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): I think this idea of 'lets quickly do something fast' is ill concieved and is ultimately going to hurt our image. I've looked at the latest

Re: gdselect alpha 3

1998-10-16 Thread Brandon Mitchell
On Fri, 16 Oct 1998, Michael Stone wrote: Michael Perhaps an incremental approach is good: a good gui for the Michael existing product in this release, other features in other Michael releases. Maybe apt will be better, but we haven't seen it Michael yet (referring to the UI). Apt's

Re: gdselect alpha 3

1998-10-16 Thread Peter S Galbraith
Manoj Srivastava wrote: Hi, Michael == Michael Stone [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Michael Quoting Jason Gunthorpe ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): I think this idea of 'lets quickly do something fast' is ill concieved an d is ultimately going to hurt our image. I've looked at the latest version,

Re: gdselect alpha 3

1998-10-16 Thread Tom Lees
On Fri, Oct 16, 1998 at 09:48:18AM -0400, Peter S Galbraith wrote: Manoj Srivastava wrote: Hi, Michael == Michael Stone [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Michael Quoting Jason Gunthorpe ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): I think this idea of 'lets quickly do something fast' is ill concieved an d

Re: gdselect alpha 3

1998-10-16 Thread Adam Heath
On Fri, 16 Oct 1998, Tom Lees wrote: Adam, how far have you got? Maybe we should collaborate on this. I believe its probably not much effort to port to libapt - the main problem is the dependency screen bit. Well, I removed the dpkg.a file, and started rem'ing out code. Got that to compile,

Re: gdselect alpha 3

1998-10-16 Thread Jason Gunthorpe
On Fri, 16 Oct 1998, Tom Lees wrote: I agree, but I needed something to get it up off the ground quickly. It could now almost certainly be ported to libapt very quickly, whereas writing it to libapt in the first place would have been harder, especially considering I already had the basics

Re: gdselect alpha 3

1998-10-16 Thread Joseph Carter
On Fri, Oct 16, 1998 at 09:48:18AM -0400, Peter S Galbraith wrote: What I need from dselect is more screen space, more pixels, a less crampled selection environment. It takes forver to navigate through dselect because of the sheer number of packages. It seems that gdselect would help a lot

Re: Screenshots (Re: gdselect alpha 3)

1998-10-15 Thread Martin Schulze
Nils Rennebarth wrote: On Wed, Oct 14, 1998 at 05:03:22PM +0200, Martin Schulze wrote: I was told recently that people might be interested in some screenshots of the program. The following page contains three images. http://www.infodrom.north.de/~joey/Linux/Debian/gdselect.html Does

Re: Screenshots (Re: gdselect alpha 3)

1998-10-15 Thread Greg Vence
Martin Schulze wrote: Nils Rennebarth wrote: On Wed, Oct 14, 1998 at 05:03:22PM +0200, Martin Schulze wrote: I was told recently that people might be interested in some screenshots of the program. The following page contains three images.

Re: Screenshots (Re: gdselect alpha 3)

1998-10-15 Thread Nils Rennebarth
On Wed, Oct 14, 1998 at 05:03:22PM +0200, Martin Schulze wrote: I was told recently that people might be interested in some screenshots of the program. The following page contains three images. http://www.infodrom.north.de/~joey/Linux/Debian/gdselect.html Does anyone else has the problem of

Re: gdselect alpha 3

1998-10-15 Thread Tom Lees
On Wed, Oct 14, 1998 at 02:29:04PM -0700, Joey Hess wrote: Are there any plans to merge this with apt? Seems gdselect has the frontend, and apt has the backend. Well, I could do with some apt in-built dependency handling :) There isnt time before the freeze, and AFAIK there are no plans now

Re: gdselect alpha 3

1998-10-14 Thread Steve Dunham
Ben Gertzfield [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Martin == Martin Schulze [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Martin Fixed by moving #include stdio.h five lines up. I Martin fixed it but forget about it, since it was *that* easy. Martin Not even worth mentioning. Er, in which file? The file

Screenshots (Re: gdselect alpha 3)

1998-10-14 Thread Martin Schulze
Hi, I was told recently that people might be interested in some screenshots of the program. The following page contains three images. http://www.infodrom.north.de/~joey/Linux/Debian/gdselect.html Regards, Joey -- Unix is user friendly ... It's just picky about it's friends.

Re: Screenshots (Re: gdselect alpha 3)

1998-10-14 Thread Raphael Hertzog
Le Wed, Oct 14, 1998 at 05:03:22PM +0200, Martin Schulze écrivait: http://www.infodrom.north.de/~joey/Linux/Debian/gdselect.html The startup image isn't available. But I have a problem with gdselect. The first time I ran it, i was logged in a non-root account. It worked and was able to browse

Re: Screenshots (Re: gdselect alpha 3)

1998-10-14 Thread Martin Schulze
Raphael Hertzog wrote: Le Wed, Oct 14, 1998 at 05:03:22PM +0200, Martin Schulze écrivait: http://www.infodrom.north.de/~joey/Linux/Debian/gdselect.html The startup image isn't available. It is now. I'm too lame to type. Regards, Joey -- Unix is user friendly ... It's just

Re: gdselect alpha 3

1998-10-14 Thread Adrian Bridgett
On Tue, Oct 13, 1998 at 08:52:01PM +0200, Martin Schulze wrote: Tom Lees wrote: I released alpha 3 to http://www.lpsg.demon.co.uk/gdselect/ today. This looks quite impressive. Good work! One comment: On my system the gauge which is displayed first uses strange size. The y-stretch was

Re: gdselect alpha 3

1998-10-14 Thread Joey Hess
Are there any plans to merge this with apt? Seems gdselect has the frontend, and apt has the backend. -- see shy jo

gdselect alpha 3

1998-10-13 Thread Tom Lees
I released alpha 3 to http://www.lpsg.demon.co.uk/gdselect/ today. The next release will have all features present. This is primarily a last testing phase. -- Tom Lees [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.lpsg.demon.co.uk/ PGP Key: finger [EMAIL PROTECTED],

Re: gdselect alpha 3

1998-10-13 Thread Martin Schulze
Tom Lees wrote: I released alpha 3 to http://www.lpsg.demon.co.uk/gdselect/ today. This looks quite impressive. Good work! One comment: On my system the gauge which is displayed first uses strange size. The y-stretch was about 5 times of the title bar. That looks ugly. I'd rather like it to

Re: gdselect alpha 3

1998-10-13 Thread Ben Gertzfield
Tom == Tom Lees [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Tom I released alpha 3 to http://www.lpsg.demon.co.uk/gdselect/ Tom today. The next release will have all features present. This Tom is primarily a last testing phase. I cannot get alpha 3 to compile. (snip) gcc -g -Wall -Werror

Re: gdselect alpha 3

1998-10-13 Thread Martin Schulze
Ben Gertzfield wrote: I cannot get alpha 3 to compile. (snip) gcc -g -Wall -Werror -I/home/che/src/gdselect/gdselect-a3/include -I/usr/X11R6/include -I/usr/lib/glib/include -c util.c -o util.o gcc -g -Wall -Werror -I/home/che/src/gdselect/gdselect-a3/include -I/usr/X11R6/include

Re: gdselect alpha 3

1998-10-13 Thread Ben Gertzfield
Martin == Martin Schulze [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Martin Fixed by moving #include stdio.h five lines up. I Martin fixed it but forget about it, since it was *that* easy. Martin Not even worth mentioning. Er, in which file? The file that errored out was deps.c and it doesn't even

Re: gdselect alpha 3

1998-10-13 Thread Martin Schulze
Ben Gertzfield wrote: Martin == Martin Schulze [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Martin Fixed by moving #include stdio.h five lines up. I Martin fixed it but forget about it, since it was *that* easy. Martin Not even worth mentioning. Er, in which file? The file that errored out was

Re: gdselect alpha 3

1998-10-13 Thread Martin Bialasinski
BG == Ben Gertzfield [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Martin == Martin Schulze [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Martin Fixed by moving #include stdio.h five lines up. I Martin fixed it but forget about it, since it was *that* easy. Martin Not even worth mentioning. BG Er, in which file? The file that

Re: gdselect alpha 3

1998-10-13 Thread Martin Schulze
Martin == Martin Schulze [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Martin Fixed by moving #include stdio.h five lines up. I Martin fixed it but forget about it, since it was *that* easy. Martin Not even worth mentioning. Ben Er, in which file? The file that errored out was deps.c and