On Tue, Mar 14, 2006 at 04:11:05AM -0600, Bill Allombert wrote:
I recently made a talk at FOSDEM about menu. I hope to eventually fix
the slides and put them online.
... a talk which has been videotaped and put online at
http://meetings-archive.debian.net/pub/debian-meetins/2006/fosdem/,
for
Wouter Verhelst wrote:
http://meetings-archive.debian.net/pub/debian-meetins/2006/fosdem/,
^meetings
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On Fri, Mar 10, 2006 at 02:38:51PM -0800, Ted Walther wrote:
Hi Bill. As the packager of ratmenu, I've had to grapple with the
menu package, which you maintain.
Bill, can you tell us the reason you chose to implement your own unique
configuration language for menu? Why did you choose to
Hi Bill. As the packager of ratmenu, I've had to grapple with the
menu package, which you maintain.
Bill, can you tell us the reason you chose to implement your own unique
configuration language for menu? Why did you choose to implement it
in C++ instead of re-using an already existing
On Fri, Mar 10, 2006 at 11:58:07PM +0100, martin f krafft wrote:
also sprach Ted Walther [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2006.03.10.2338 +0100]:
I admire you as a developer, but would like to learn how it is you
arrived at the design decisions you did. I'm more of a traditional
Unix programmer myself; C,
also sprach Ted Walther [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2006.03.11.0012 +0100]:
How Bill makes technical decisions, and how he fixes his mistakes,
is entirely relevant to his race for the DPL position.
We have a technical committee for technical decisions, and I don't
consider the menu system a mistake. It
Ted Walther wrote:
If menu is a legacy program written by someone else
It would be documented in debian/changelog.
menu (0.0) unstable; urgency=low
* initial release
-- joost witteveen [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tue, 5 Nov 1996 22:42:09 +0100
Said changelog also documents pretty well how it grew
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