On Wed, 19 Jul 2000, Andreas Tille wrote: > On Wed, 19 Jul 2000, Ben Armstrong wrote: > > > Well, she likes logging into the console on the 486s. I don't think she > > judges programs based on their attractiveness. That was the revealing > > thing. It's not that the kids don't have X available to them, or that > > there's nothing interesting installed on X ... yet, I find that 99% of > > the time, she spends logged into a console session, either editing text > > files with a text editor, or using one of the three aforementioned > > programs. > OK, then let her play with the plain "wn". Using the command-line > options sanely will give her more fun than dict.
The package named 'wn' is an http server. I guess you mean the 'wordnet' package? I'm fetching this now and will look it over. > May be she will like it so much that she starts programming a > ncurses-based tool to wordnet which might become my favourite way > of accessing the wordnet database ;-). :) > Done. See my latest posting to debian-devel about "Hierarchy ...". > I'd like to avoid CCing here, but in case someone doesn't read -devel > ask me... I didn't see any response to that post in -devel :( Is this an indication that nobody is interested? Or perhaps the timing is wrong, with people still focusing on wrapping up potato? > > Which brings us back to the packaging question. If Debian-Jr is going to > > focus first on packaging new things, how do we pick-and-choose amongst all > > of the possible things to package out there? > I think about packaging "SelfLinux" which is a quite clever introduction > to Linux in German (any translators) written by the people who also > did the tipptrainer. > > > In the "programs to think with" area, I think I'd like to try my hand next > > at "glogo": > > > > http://laguna.fmedic.unam.mx/~daniel/glogo/ > Sounds good. OK, it seems we each have our ideas of what we'd like to package next. I guess it's as good a place as any to start with the things that personally interest us, but I still think we need a broader view of the problem and need to begin to engage in compiling a packaging wishlist. Is there anyone who has time for this and would be willing to take this task on? Ben -- nSLUG http://www.nslug.ns.ca [EMAIL PROTECTED] Debian http://www.debian.org [EMAIL PROTECTED] [ pgp key fingerprint = 7F DA 09 4B BA 2C 0D E0 1B B1 31 ED C6 A9 39 4F ] [ gpg key fingerprint = 395C F3A4 35D3 D247 1387 2D9E 5A94 F3CA 0B27 13C8 ]
