Re: Developer Behavior

2001-01-10 Thread D-Man
On Thu, Jan 11, 2001 at 08:02:58AM +1100, Hamish Moffatt wrote: | On Thu, Jan 11, 2001 at 12:54:08AM +1100, Russell Coker wrote: | > The thing is that a machine that can't load the correct kernel can be easily | > fixed, just use another machine to dd a kernel to a floppy. | | You really need th

Re: Developer Behavior

2001-01-09 Thread D-Man
On Wed, Jan 10, 2001 at 02:34:39AM +1100, Russell Coker wrote: | I don't think that unstable should be limited to Debian developers, but I | think that it should be restricted to discourage people who aren't reading | debian-devel. What if we setup the servers to use a different random | passwo

Re: where is #define __linux__

2001-01-09 Thread D-Man
On Mon, Jan 08, 2001 at 11:05:54PM -0800, Aaron Brashears wrote: | I'm doing some code which is intended to work on linux and sunos. I | was poking through the header files in /usr/include on my debian box | and found a line in g++-3/stl_config.h which specified: | | #if defined(__linux__) | |

Re: gnome run command

2001-01-08 Thread D-Man
It used to be gnome-run. I created my own launcher that first ran a script to set the "history" on my RH6.1 system (heavily upgraded) that had Gnome 1.2 on it. (Or maybe only gnome 1.0.55). After I installed RH7 I could no longer find the command and my launch er didn't work. -D On Mon, Jan 0

Re: Developer Behavior

2001-01-08 Thread D-Man
On Mon, Jan 08, 2001 at 08:54:07AM -0800, Aaron Lehmann wrote: | A case where it might make sense to encourage someone to run unstable | is if [...] the developer thinks that they are resonably competant. I think that this is the key. If the user is competent enough there is no harm suggesting to

Re: bugs + rant + constructive criticism (long)

2001-01-05 Thread D-Man
On Thu, Jan 04, 2001 at 03:12:56PM -0700, John Galt wrote: > On Thu, 4 Jan 2001, D-Man wrote: > > >On Wed, Jan 03, 2001 at 09:53:04PM -0700, John Galt wrote: > >> mutt allegedly shares code with pine... >^^ > >> > > > >That wo

Re: bugs + rant + constructive criticism (long)

2001-01-04 Thread D-Man
On Wed, Jan 03, 2001 at 09:53:04PM -0700, John Galt wrote: > mutt allegedly shares code with pine... > That would be very strange since mutt's author was a part of the elm group. Wouldn't mutt then have started with the elm code base? (or at least part of it) > -- > Pardon me, but you have ob

Re: bugs + rant + constructive criticism (long)

2001-01-03 Thread D-Man
On Wed, Jan 03, 2001 at 02:30:39PM -0800, Philip Brown wrote: > [ D-Man writes ] > > > > > > You are free to use whatever MUA you want, but don't complain to the > > rest of us if it is broken. > > Funny, you just did exactly that. If your mailreader

Re: bugs + rant + constructive criticism (long)

2001-01-03 Thread D-Man
On Wed, Jan 03, 2001 at 05:24:16PM -0500, Branden Robinson wrote: > On Wed, Jan 03, 2001 at 05:04:07PM -0500, D-Man wrote: > > On Wed, Jan 03, 2001 at 12:57:56PM -0800, Philip Brown wrote: > > > > For instance, if I followup to any of Branden Robinson's posts, they g

Re: bugs + rant + constructive criticism (long)

2001-01-03 Thread D-Man
On Wed, Jan 03, 2001 at 12:11:21PM -0800, Philip Brown wrote: > > By making Reply-To: point to the list, you make these two different > > commands do the same thing, thus depriving the user of the choice. > > There is NO "depriving of choice". > If the recipient user wants to send to the original

Re: bugs + rant + constructive criticism (long)

2001-01-03 Thread D-Man
On Wed, Jan 03, 2001 at 12:57:56PM -0800, Philip Brown wrote: > > For instance, if I followup to any of Branden Robinson's posts, they go > > to the list only. > > that is because both you and he are using "special" software. Let's find out. Miles, Branden, what MUA's do you use? I happen to u

Re: bugs + rant + constructive criticism (long)

2001-01-03 Thread D-Man
On Wed, Jan 03, 2001 at 09:08:25PM +0200, Anton Zinoviev wrote: > > Reply-To munging does not benefit the user with a reasonable mailer. > > People want to munge Reply-To headers to make ``reply back to the > > list'' easy. But it already is easy. Reasonable mail programs have two > > separate ``re