On 15/08/07 at 00:12 +0530, Deepak Tripathi wrote:
Dear mentors,
I am looking for a sponsor for my package libterm-ansicolor-ruby.
Hi,
Have you considered maintaining this package inside the pkg-ruby-extras
team? It would probably help a lot when looking for sponsors.
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Adam Borowski [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I'm afraid the very concept of termcap/terminfo is thoroughly broken.
It makes the following assumptions:
* all TERM strings are known to all machines. Mere ssh will break
otherwise. And even after all these years, Solaris still doesn't
know
The Fungi [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Of course, I can't imagine an ANSI library would be anything more
than a few dozen string constant definitions, unless you wanted
man tput
(no point in hardcoding a few dozen string definitions, unless one
_likes_ the nasty comments that people make when
Adam Borowski [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
curses does only full-screen display, and is useless for anything
line-based. And being capable of colouring your display is a MAJOR thing if
you want to be able to read text quickly.
man filter
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On Wed, Aug 15, 2007 at 04:02:57PM -, Thomas Dickey wrote:
[...]
(no point in hardcoding a few dozen string definitions, unless
one _likes_ the nasty comments that people make when they read the
code ;-)
Completely agree. My point was that, when I've *needed* ANSI color
and similar
Thomas Dickey [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
(no point in hardcoding a few dozen string definitions, unless one
_likes_ the nasty comments that people make when they read the code ;-)
On the contrary, providing ANSI X3.64 / ECMA-048 / ISO 6429 control
sequences in a library seems entirely
On Wed, Aug 15, 2007 at 12:38:07PM -0700, Russ Allbery wrote:
Thomas Dickey [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
(no point in hardcoding a few dozen string definitions, unless one
_likes_ the nasty comments that people make when they read the code ;-)
I took Thomas's comment to mean that it *should*
The Fungi [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
On Wed, Aug 15, 2007 at 12:38:07PM -0700, Russ Allbery wrote:
Thomas Dickey [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
(no point in hardcoding a few dozen string definitions, unless one
_likes_ the nasty comments that people make when they read the code ;-)
I took
On Wed, Aug 15, 2007 at 04:02:57PM -, Thomas Dickey wrote:
The Fungi [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Of course, I can't imagine an ANSI library would be anything more
than a few dozen string constant definitions, unless you wanted
man tput
(no point in hardcoding a few dozen string
Dear mentors,
I am looking for a sponsor for my package libterm-ansicolor-ruby.
* Package name: libterm-ansicolor-ruby
Version : 1.0.2-1
Upstream Author : Florian Frank [EMAIL PROTECTED]
* URL : http://term-ansicolor.rubyforge.org/
* License : GPL Version2
Hi,
* Deepak Tripathi [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2007-08-14 20:44]:
[...]
It builds these binary packages:
libterm-ansicolor-ruby - Ruby library that colors strings using ANSI escape
sequences
[...]
I am a bit curious why should someone not want to use curses
but ansi escapes in ruby?
Kind
On Tue, Aug 14, 2007 at 09:53:12PM +0200, Nico Golde wrote:
I am a bit curious why should someone not want to use curses
but ansi escapes in ruby?
While curses is great for talking to terminals or terminal-like
devices/applications, there are times when you may need to send bare
ANSI or
The Fungi [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Of course, I can't imagine an ANSI library would be anything more than a
few dozen string constant definitions, unless you wanted routines to
recognize and condense inefficient ANSI sequences into something denser,
consisting of fewer characters (most the
On Tue, Aug 14, 2007 at 09:53:12PM +0200, Nico Golde wrote:
* Deepak Tripathi [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2007-08-14 20:44]:
libterm-ansicolor-ruby - Ruby library that colors strings using ANSI escape
sequences
[...]
I am a bit curious why should someone not want to use curses
but ansi
Hi,
* Adam Borowski [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2007-08-15 01:17]:
On Tue, Aug 14, 2007 at 09:53:12PM +0200, Nico Golde wrote:
* Deepak Tripathi [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2007-08-14 20:44]:
libterm-ansicolor-ruby - Ruby library that colors strings using ANSI
escape sequences
[...]
I am a bit
Russ Allbery wrote:
The Fungi [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Of course, I can't imagine an ANSI library would be anything more than a
few dozen string constant definitions, unless you wanted routines to
recognize and condense inefficient ANSI sequences into something denser,
consisting of fewer
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