Just downloaded myself a copy of Binc 1.2.0b1 to take a look at it, and while I am waiting for it to compile (on an old P-300) I thought I would share my recent gripes with the bincimap build/install process.
1. There is no user-configurable logging dir, one has to go in and hand-edit the service/log/run file. 2. During 'make install', the current bincimap.conf file is overwritten with the new one. At the least, write it as bincimap.conf.new, and notify the user to check for new configurables. Another option would be to read in the current variables and write to bincimap.conf, saving the old conffile as bincimap.conf.old 3. How about a 'make certificate' target for newbies to OpenSSL. Maybe even a 'make ca' too? I suppose that the distro should provide a Makefile in /etc/ssl, but I know that Debian doesn't, I had to write my own. I solve 1 and 2 for myself with a patch that I apply to all new bincimap downloads, but as Binc grows, so I will have to change my patch - not very extensible. Bloody hell, it's still compiling... I'll go and make some coffee. See ja all, SR -- +---------------------------------------------------------+ | Stefano Rivera http://rivera.za.net | | H: +27 21 794 7937 () ASCII Ribbon Campaign: | | C: +27 72 419 8559 /\ Say "No!" to HTML email. | +---------------------------------------------------------+ If Bill Gates had a cent for every time a Windows box crashed...oh, wait a minute - he already does.
