RFS: PySol

2003-03-23 Thread Alexander Nofftz
Hi! As the bug in TKinter is fixed now, there's nothing that prevents PySol 4.81 from going into Unstable. However I'm still looking for a sponsor. You can get my packages at: http://server.alexnofftz.de/~alex/pysol/ Thanks in advance, Alex -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1

Re: out-of-date-standards-version 3.5.6

2003-03-23 Thread Darren Salt
I demand that Antti-Juhani Kaijanaho may or may not have written... On 20030321T182926+0100, Marcin Juszkiewicz wrote: License : GNU Public Licence You *could* of course spell that correctly... There are no _spelling_ errors there. (Sorry, no time to give any useful comments.) I

Re: [OT] A question for programmers - Inspiration

2003-03-23 Thread Robert Bihlmeyer
Barry deFreese [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I don't learn a great deal from reading unfortunately. I think we're alike here. But at least for me some texts were great inspiration. While reading The Algorithmic Beauty of Plants I was always itching to implement what was described. I am pretty

Re: out-of-date-standards-version 3.5.6

2003-03-23 Thread Antti-Juhani Kaijanaho
On 20030323T154831+, Darren Salt wrote: I demand that Antti-Juhani Kaijanaho may or may not have written... Demand? An odd choice of words. On 20030321T182926+0100, Marcin Juszkiewicz wrote: License : GNU Public Licence You *could* of course spell that correctly... There

Re: out-of-date-standards-version 3.5.6

2003-03-23 Thread Thomas Viehmann
Hi. Darren Salt wrote: License : GNU Public Licence You *could* of course spell that correctly... There are no _spelling_ errors there. While there are no words mispelled, the *name* of the license (or licence) is. Just because my name is spelled as Tomas with or without various accents

Re: [OT] A question for programmers - Inspiration

2003-03-23 Thread Thomas Viehmann
Hi Barry, Robert Bihlmeyer wrote: Barry deFreese [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Other paths that might lead you to inspirations: * On a related note, extensions to programs you use can make nice little projects. Here might be a nice little project. I thought so after a question of a

Re: out-of-date-standards-version 3.5.6

2003-03-23 Thread Colin Watson
On Sun, Mar 23, 2003 at 08:16:18PM +0200, Antti-Juhani Kaijanaho wrote: On 20030323T154831+, Darren Salt wrote: I demand that Antti-Juhani Kaijanaho may or may not have written... Demand? An odd choice of words. We don't demand solid facts! What we demand is a total absence of

Re: May I temporarily move away a conffile of a conflicting package?

2003-03-23 Thread Matt Zimmerman
On Fri, Mar 21, 2003 at 04:52:09PM +0100, Andreas Metzler wrote: For a complete discusssion see http://bugs.debian.org/183357 Currently the exim4-packages cannot provide /usr/sbin/exim (only /usr/sbin/exim4) because exim v3's init script up to version 3.36-4 uses something aequivalent to

Re: out-of-date-standards-version 3.5.6

2003-03-23 Thread Darren Salt
I demand that Thomas Viehmann may or may not have written... Darren Salt wrote: License : GNU Public Licence You *could* of course spell that correctly... There are no _spelling_ errors there. While there are no words mispelled, What? There's one, right there :-) the *name* of

Re: out-of-date-standards-version 3.5.6

2003-03-23 Thread Marcin Juszkiewicz
It was 2003-03-23 21:56 when Darren Salt wrote: I demand that Thomas Viehmann may or may not have written... Darren Salt wrote: License : GNU Public Licence You *could* of course spell that correctly... There are no _spelling_ errors there. While there are no words mispelled,

Re: [OT] A question for programmers - Inspiration

2003-03-23 Thread Joey Hess
Matthew Danish wrote: If you don't learn, you're going to make the same mistakes that were made before. Making mistakes can be the essence of learning. I've written spaghetti code in BASIC, I've written C with buffer overflows, I've written accidential rm -rf's in shell. I've written bubble

Re: [OT] A question for programmers - Inspiration

2003-03-23 Thread Matthew Danish
On Fri, Mar 21, 2003 at 10:20:02PM -0800, Joey Hess wrote: Matthew Danish wrote: If you don't learn, you're going to make the same mistakes that were made before. Making mistakes can be the essence of learning. I've written spaghetti code in BASIC, I've written C with buffer overflows,

Re: [OT] A question for programmers - Inspiration

2003-03-23 Thread Barry deFreese
Robert Bihlmeyer wrote: Barry deFreese [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I don't learn a great deal from reading unfortunately. I think we're alike here. But at least for me some texts were great inspiration. While reading The Algorithmic Beauty of Plants I was always itching to implement what

Re: Question about ITP and where to go first

2003-03-23 Thread Graham Wilson
On Fri, Mar 21, 2003 at 04:37:47PM -0500, Morgon Kanter wrote: Hello, hello. I'm unsure exactly what to do next, however, because it is unclear. Am I supposed to file an ITP bug against WNPP? Or should I find a sponsor first? either one. i dont think it matters too much. (it seems that I

RFS: PySol

2003-03-23 Thread Alexander Nofftz
Hi! As the bug in TKinter is fixed now, there's nothing that prevents PySol 4.81 from going into Unstable. However I'm still looking for a sponsor. You can get my packages at: http://server.alexnofftz.de/~alex/pysol/ Thanks in advance, Alex -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1

Re: out-of-date-standards-version 3.5.6

2003-03-23 Thread Darren Salt
I demand that Antti-Juhani Kaijanaho may or may not have written... On 20030321T182926+0100, Marcin Juszkiewicz wrote: License : GNU Public Licence You *could* of course spell that correctly... There are no _spelling_ errors there. (Sorry, no time to give any useful comments.) I

Re: [OT] A question for programmers - Inspiration

2003-03-23 Thread Robert Bihlmeyer
Barry deFreese [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I don't learn a great deal from reading unfortunately. I think we're alike here. But at least for me some texts were great inspiration. While reading The Algorithmic Beauty of Plants I was always itching to implement what was described. I am pretty

Re: out-of-date-standards-version 3.5.6

2003-03-23 Thread Antti-Juhani Kaijanaho
On 20030323T154831+, Darren Salt wrote: I demand that Antti-Juhani Kaijanaho may or may not have written... Demand? An odd choice of words. On 20030321T182926+0100, Marcin Juszkiewicz wrote: License : GNU Public Licence You *could* of course spell that correctly... There

Re: out-of-date-standards-version 3.5.6

2003-03-23 Thread Thomas Viehmann
Hi. Darren Salt wrote: License : GNU Public Licence You *could* of course spell that correctly... There are no _spelling_ errors there. While there are no words mispelled, the *name* of the license (or licence) is. Just because my name is spelled as Tomas with or without various accents

Re: [OT] A question for programmers - Inspiration

2003-03-23 Thread Thomas Viehmann
Hi Barry, Robert Bihlmeyer wrote: Barry deFreese [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Other paths that might lead you to inspirations: * On a related note, extensions to programs you use can make nice little projects. Here might be a nice little project. I thought so after a question of a

Re: out-of-date-standards-version 3.5.6

2003-03-23 Thread Colin Watson
On Sun, Mar 23, 2003 at 08:16:18PM +0200, Antti-Juhani Kaijanaho wrote: On 20030323T154831+, Darren Salt wrote: I demand that Antti-Juhani Kaijanaho may or may not have written... Demand? An odd choice of words. We don't demand solid facts! What we demand is a total absence of

Re: May I temporarily move away a conffile of a conflicting package?

2003-03-23 Thread Matt Zimmerman
On Fri, Mar 21, 2003 at 04:52:09PM +0100, Andreas Metzler wrote: For a complete discusssion see http://bugs.debian.org/183357 Currently the exim4-packages cannot provide /usr/sbin/exim (only /usr/sbin/exim4) because exim v3's init script up to version 3.36-4 uses something aequivalent to

Re: out-of-date-standards-version 3.5.6

2003-03-23 Thread Darren Salt
I demand that Thomas Viehmann may or may not have written... Darren Salt wrote: License : GNU Public Licence You *could* of course spell that correctly... There are no _spelling_ errors there. While there are no words mispelled, What? There's one, right there :-) the *name* of

Re: out-of-date-standards-version 3.5.6

2003-03-23 Thread Marcin Juszkiewicz
It was 2003-03-23 21:56 when Darren Salt wrote: I demand that Thomas Viehmann may or may not have written... Darren Salt wrote: License : GNU Public Licence You *could* of course spell that correctly... There are no _spelling_ errors there. While there are no words mispelled,

Re: [OT] A question for programmers - Inspiration

2003-03-23 Thread Joey Hess
Matthew Danish wrote: If you don't learn, you're going to make the same mistakes that were made before. Making mistakes can be the essence of learning. I've written spaghetti code in BASIC, I've written C with buffer overflows, I've written accidential rm -rf's in shell. I've written bubble

Re: [OT] A question for programmers - Inspiration

2003-03-23 Thread Joey Hess
I get less out of computer books than most people on this thread. With the technical/reference books I seem to not read them until I know most of what's in them, and then just use them to mop up any odd corner I missed. And I'd rather learn the more process and theory oriented stuff the hard way.

Re: [OT] A question for programmers - Inspiration

2003-03-23 Thread Matthew Danish
On Fri, Mar 21, 2003 at 10:20:02PM -0800, Joey Hess wrote: Matthew Danish wrote: If you don't learn, you're going to make the same mistakes that were made before. Making mistakes can be the essence of learning. I've written spaghetti code in BASIC, I've written C with buffer overflows,

Re: [OT] A question for programmers - Inspiration

2003-03-23 Thread Barry deFreese
Robert Bihlmeyer wrote: Barry deFreese [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I don't learn a great deal from reading unfortunately. I think we're alike here. But at least for me some texts were great inspiration. While reading The Algorithmic Beauty of Plants I was always itching to implement