On Wed, May 02, 2001 at 02:17:40PM -0500, David Starner wrote: > On Wed, May 02, 2001 at 09:04:29PM +0200, Radovan Garabik wrote: > > Package: wnpp > > Severity: wishlist > > > > serpento is a dict (RFC 2229) server > > written in python. > > > > I am the author, package is already ready and being > > duploaded. > > Cool. The description will mention the differences between it and > dictd, won't it?
It is all in README basically, it is.. uhm.. different :-) > > > License: GPL, with the addition: It can be linked with > > whatever you want, without any restrictions. > > (so that I can have a module in C there.. sigh) > > There's much cleaner ways of doing this, if you just want to link > with one module. If you send a more detailed description to > debian-legal, I'm sure we can give advice. If it's just Python, > I'd say "with the exception that it can be linked with Python". > The LGPL is about the same as your current license, but a lot > clearer. I know, I meant this as a stopgap until the licensing issues with python are resolved (hopefully with python2.1) On Wed, May 02, 2001 at 03:12:57PM -0500, David Starner wrote: > Also, does it use /var/lib/dictd/db.list or /etc/dictd.conf? If it None. Unfortunately, serpento uses different sort order for .index files, (not to mention that it has completely different configuration file) so plain old dict-* packages are unusable as installed. Script to create index files for serpento is included, but (currently) has to be run manually. > doesn't, then some sort of install-dict-dictionary needs to be made > and all the dict-* packages made to use it, or serpento needs to be > fixed to use it. Yes, I plan to add automatic conversion of index files and some kind of adding the existing databases to the configuration file, but so far I have no good idea on how to do it the best way. (perhaps divert dictdconfig... or conflict with dictd and provide own dictdconfig(8) - in fact, serpento clashes with dictd if you do leave the default ports the same, so a conflict would probably be justified anyway) -- ----------------------------------------------------------- | Radovan Garabik http://melkor.dnp.fmph.uniba.sk/~garabik/ | | __..--^^^--..__ garabik @ melkor.dnp.fmph.uniba.sk | ----------------------------------------------------------- Antivirus alert: file .signature infected by signature virus. Hi! I'm a signature virus! Copy me into your signature file to help me spread!