Re: getpass alternative [Re: getpass documentation]

2008-06-04 Thread Micah Cowan
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Matthew Woehlke wrote: Micah Cowan wrote: Wget just added code to the dev repo that uses gnu_getpass to support password prompting. This was mainly because it was quick-and-easy, and because gnu_getpass doesn't suffer from many of the serious

GNU Coding Standard compliance

2008-06-04 Thread Eric Blake
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I'm trying to package wget-1.11.3 for cygwin. But you have several GNU Coding Standard compliance problems that is making this task more difficult than it should be. GCS requires that your testsuite be run by 'make check', but yours is a no-op.

Re: getpass alternative [Re: getpass documentation]

2008-06-04 Thread Matthew Woehlke
Micah Cowan wrote: Matthew Woehlke wrote: Micah Cowan wrote: Wget just added code to the dev repo that uses gnu_getpass to support password prompting. This was mainly because it was quick-and-easy, and because gnu_getpass doesn't suffer from many of the serious flaws plaguing alternative

Re: GNU Coding Standard compliance

2008-06-04 Thread Micah Cowan
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Eric Blake wrote: I'm trying to package wget-1.11.3 for cygwin. But you have several GNU Coding Standard compliance problems that is making this task more difficult than it should be. GCS requires that your testsuite be run by 'make check', but

Re: getpass alternative [Re: getpass documentation]

2008-06-04 Thread Micah Cowan
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Matthew Woehlke wrote: Micah Cowan wrote: Matthew Woehlke wrote: Micah Cowan wrote: Wget just added code to the dev repo that uses gnu_getpass to support password prompting. This was mainly because it was quick-and-easy, and because gnu_getpass

Re: getpass alternative [Re: getpass documentation]

2008-06-04 Thread Matthew Woehlke
Micah Cowan wrote: Matthew Woehlke wrote: Great news, thanks! Now... if Fedora will just pick it up... :-) I don't see why they wouldn't; they're up-to-date with 1.11.3, as of today, which seems like a pretty quick pick-up, to me. Maybe, but Fedora 8 is only on 1.10.2 (the patched Red Hat

Re: getpass alternative [Re: getpass documentation]

2008-06-04 Thread Debarshi Ray
Great news, thanks! Now... if Fedora will just pick it up... :-) I don't see why they wouldn't; they're up-to-date with 1.11.3, as of today, which seems like a pretty quick pick-up, to me. Maybe, but Fedora 8 is only on 1.10.2 (the patched Red Hat one)... I'm not sure what their policy on