On Sun, 2006-01-01 at 17:25 -0500, Thomas Pegg wrote: > Hello all, this is the first of hopefully a series of monthly (perhaps > weekly) messages, giving a basic summary of where things stand within > the ALFS project.
Good to hear. > nALFS and alfs: > Currently with nALFS, potentially a new 1.2.6 release will happen due to > a recent report of some file corruption when using the [search_replace] > element, plus a fix for display of line drawing characters when in UTF-8 > mode. Good call. Any bug as serious as this should warrant a point release. > alfs development seems to have stalled a bit again, but we'll see if we > can't get that hopping again. We had some good progress on the > communication protocol, we may want to see if we can work on refining > that some, as well as work on some means of authentication next. Do we have a definitive answer documented on what the finished profile syntax is going to be? Also is there a todo list somewhere? bugzilla? Now that I'm back in the land of the connected it would be nice to get my teeth into something. I think along side the authentication work, some form of extensive logging should be thought about. Logging, especially in LFS and the land of ICA testing, is essential and the more detailed the logs are the more likely the new tool will be adopted by the mainstream LFS builders. > > The Profiles Snip. I believe that with the work done on jhlfs it has shown that the correct way forward from here should be to auto-generate the profiles. A jhlfs Makefile->profile hack in perl/python would be all that is needed to generate the book profiles using jhlfs to download and parse the book. > Comments? Keep up the good work ;) > Thomas Jamie -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/alfs-discuss FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/faq/ Unsubscribe: See the above information page
