Re: [dev] getting rid of cmake builds

2023-10-02 Thread LM
On Thu, Sep 21, 2023 at 5:03 PM Dave Blanchard wrote: > I attached an example script which one could use to bootstrap cmake in a > LFS type environment during the initial tool build, or pick and choose the > necessary bits in order to bootstrap a custom cmake on their own live >running system.

Re: [dev] getting rid of cmake builds

2023-09-25 Thread LM
On Thu, Sep 21, 2023 at 5:03 PM Dave Blanchard wrote: > I attached an example script which one could use to bootstrap cmake in a > LFS type environment during the initial tool build, or pick and choose the > necessary bits in order to bootstrap a custom cmake on their own live >running system.

[dev] getting rid of cmake builds

2023-09-21 Thread LM
I build a lot of common libraries and programs from source. Many of them are switching to cmake. I'm not a fan of cmake. For one thing, it's so complicated to build from source code that I can't bootstrap the build of cmake itself. I really would prefer to build as many of my tools from source

Re: [dev] C variants, compilers and completeness

2023-08-01 Thread LM
On Mon 24 Jul 2023, Sagar Acharya wrote: > I see C compilers recommended by suckless are: > > tinycc > simplecc > cproc > qbe > lacc > > Which variant of C do they offer? What are the differences and do they offer > sufficient features to express with a program completely? I tried to check if

Re: [dev] Suckless paint/graphic editor program

2023-07-10 Thread LM
On Mon, Jul 10, 2023 at 3:24 PM wrote: > I'd love if we could use the GPU directly like pixel changes, etc, without > all > the 100 fancy APIs, managers, etc. I ran across this and it might be of interest. https://github.com/uobikiemukot/yafblib It lists the BSD console as an option. I

Re: [dev] Suckless paint/graphic editor program

2023-07-09 Thread LM
On Thu, Jul 6, 2023 at 3:36 PM wrote: > That's too much options to check out for me, but a console-based option > (to me > that sounds like not needing X11? Because ideally that's what I'd want.. I > want > to get rid of a Window manager and in the future use something like dvtm) I've been

Re: [dev] Minimalist software. Should I care?

2023-07-05 Thread LM
On Tue, Jul 4, 2023 at 8:16 PM wrote: > I use ST without any patching, and have done so for years. It is very fast > and > works flawlessly in my experience. All the other terminals have serious > issues. In general, I agree with that statement. Most of the terminals are based on vte and

Re: [dev] Am I doing this right?

2023-07-04 Thread LM
On Sun, Jul 2, 2023 at 6:37 PM Nikita Krasnov wrote: > While we're on it. Are there any good Android email clients > that you can recommend? I've yet to find an app that allows > you to send emails in plain text, let alone with line > hard-wrapping :( Haven't really tested out email clients on

Re: [dev] Suckless paint/graphic editor program

2023-07-03 Thread LM
On Mon, Jul 3, 2023 at 4:31 PM Fernando wrote: > I am looking for a graphics editor that can: > *use color > *can draw basic lines and shapes > *easy to build (like suckless programs) As far as easy to build, I've built grafx2 ( http://pulkomandy.tk/projects/GrafX2 ) and LodePaint (

[dev] organizing programs

2023-05-12 Thread LM
I've been looking into todo programs, task schedulers and related organizing programs. I ran across information about todo.txt and org mode and that got me interested in chaining some programs together that could work with text based organizational information. I just completed writing a simple

Re: [dev] Search engine for good frontends

2022-12-19 Thread LM
On Sun, Dec 18, 2022 at 8:17 AM wrote: > You consider Netsurf to be a minimal web browser? Never used it, but: > Well.. Suckless' Surf depends on a piece of shit called webkitgtk something > like that if I remember correctly.. so I use Links instead. > I so far like Links (haven't checked out the

Re: [dev] Some questions on communication suckless style

2022-10-16 Thread LM
On Sat, Oct 15, 2022 at 12:00 PM fernandoreyesavila3 wrote: > We also don't really need remote control as we mostly use screen sharing for > educational purposes when we can't work in person. When I need to share slides and I don't want to try to share my screen with some communications

Re: [dev] Some questions on communication suckless style

2022-10-14 Thread LM
Fernando, I cannot attest as to whether these follow suckless design philosophy, but the following are voice related programs from a list on the topic of FLOSS Educational Resources for Internet and Distance Learning: https://www.mumble.info https://f-droid.org/packages/se.lublin.mumla/ Mumble

Re: [dev] Suckless CMatrix clone

2022-06-18 Thread LM
On Fri, Jun 17, 2022 at 3:00 AM Laslo Hunhold wrote: > I pushed line-break-detection[0][1] just yesterday. The functions > > size_t grapheme_next_line_break(const uint_least32_t *, size_t); > > and > > size_t grapheme_next_line_break_utf8(const char *, size_t); > > should be just

Re: [dev] Suckless CMatrix clone

2022-05-31 Thread LM
On Mon, May 30, 2022 at 11:33 AM Laslo Hunhold wrote: > What functions do you need in the context of Tuxmath? >From what I remember, it just needs to figure out where to do a clean break for text wrapping with internationalized strings. Don't believe it uses the other features of libunistring.

Re: [dev] Suckless CMatrix clone

2022-05-30 Thread LM
On Mon, May 30, 2022 at 4:56 AM Laslo Hunhold wrote: > having dove deep into UTF-8 and Unicode, I can at least say that > libutf8proc has an unsafe UTF-8-decoder, as it doesn't catch overlong > encodings. There are also multiple other pitfalls. Thanks for the reviews. That's really helpful to

Re: [dev] Suckless CMatrix clone

2022-05-29 Thread LM
On Sun, May 29, 2022 at 12:34 PM Kyryl Melekhin wrote: > Cool, but why use Glib? You can come up with some random utf-8 character > generator function, it's pretty trivial and there are plently of examples > in many suckless programs on how to do utf-8 validation. I like that point. Not a fan

[dev] converting cmake or configure files

2022-05-17 Thread LM
Anyone know of some fast or easy ways to convert projects using cmake or GNU autoconf to other build formats. I remember redo was mentioned on this list and looks really promising. Currently, I try to use some form of make without cmake or configure whenever possible. Typically it takes me a

Re: [dev][surf] Is there any suckless webkit?

2022-05-02 Thread LM
On Mon, May 2, 2022 at 3:44 PM Robert Winkler wrote: > > Maybe I am a bit naiv, or technically not informed enough, > BUT: > > Is there any webkit/browser that: > - Does not consume most of the computer resources (!!!). > - Is compatible with Java script. > - Displays modern websites without

Re: [dev] diff and patch

2022-02-02 Thread LM
On Wed, Feb 2, 2022 at 7:53 AM Mattias Andrée wrote: > I don't have diff(1) readily available, but you > should be able to find it on the mailing list. Was this the latest or is there a later version: https://lists.suckless.org/dev/1602/28395.html Nicely done on the diff implementation. The

[dev] diff and patch

2022-02-02 Thread LM
I've been looking at non-GNU implementations of diff and patch. The BSD systems, Plan 9 and toybox all have their own implementations. Has anyone found other non-GNU licensed Open Source alternatives for these programs? Does anyone else use diff and patch alternatives that are not GNU licensed

[dev] POSIX Monitoring tools

2021-11-12 Thread LM
Any recommendations for utilities to monitor AIX systems? Looking for something that follows the suckless.org philosophies preferably written in C. Thanks.

[dev] Re: Looking for irc client

2020-05-19 Thread LM
Pedro Lucas Porcellis wrote: >Dunno why the specificity of a C++ client, but have you checked the rocks [1] page already? It has 9 suggestion of irc clients that rocks the boat of the suckless philosophy. Planning on building from source and would prefer a C or C++ source code base since that's

[dev] Looking for irc client

2020-05-18 Thread LM
Any recommendations for a good C/C++ irc client, preferably command line based, with minimal dependencies that supports SASL? Was trying to access freenode and it said I needed SASL support in my irc client. Thanks.

[dev] software lists

2019-07-15 Thread LM
Any suggestions for other good software lists for locating well-designed software similar to the list at https://suckless.org/rocks/ So far, I've only been able to find the following (and I dug up many of the alternatives mentioned in the musl list when I still had access to update the wiki):

Re: [dev] GUIs

2019-05-22 Thread LM
Sylvain .Bertrand wrote: > The only really tough thing with a GUI toolkit (C or anything else) is what > you >wrote above: "correct" layout/navigation and rendering of unicode text at near >global scale. I've been investigating that. Was reading the Unicode information on the BIDI algorithm

[dev] GUIs

2019-05-20 Thread LM
I was reading through the dev mailing list archives and noticed the posts in March asking which GUIs might be considered better than GTK+ and Qt. I'm very interested in the subject and have been searching for a decent GUI library for a very long time. My latest list of possible C based GUI

[dev] Re: What would a well-designed voice assistant program look like?

2018-03-22 Thread LM
Laslo Hunhold wrote: >When reflecting about a problem, it should be a priority to think about >how it can be split up. In this case, we can talk about two problems, >which combined, solve the "voice assistant" problem. > > 1) voice recognition > 2) assistant Personally, I'm more interested in

[dev] What would a well-designed voice assistant program look like?

2018-03-22 Thread LM
Was at a conference where they were discussing the new voice assistant applications from large corporations like Amazon and Google. I began thinking there had to be some Open Source alternatives available. I found several projects such as the ones listed below. However, most of the Open Source