Re: [dev] GPL free Linux

Hadrien Lacour writes: > On Sun, Nov 11, 2018 at 09:43:12PM -0700, Anthony J. Bentley wrote: > > Markus Wichmann writes: > > > Why would you do something so pointless? First of all, licences only > > > matter if you plan on redistribution, so most here won't care. Second

Re: [dev] GPL free Linux

Markus Wichmann writes: > Why would you do something so pointless? First of all, licences only > matter if you plan on redistribution, so most here won't care. Second, > all the GPL demands is that you distribute the source, which any good > distribution should do, anyway, right? GPL also demands

Re: [dev] [PATCH][blind] alloca #include for BSDs

Nick writes: > Quoth Yuri: > > You should also change your config.mk files to allow external optimization > > and other flags. For example: > > > > > CFLAGS = -std=c99 -Wall -pedantic -O2 > > > > should be changed to > > > > > CFLAGS ?= -O2 > > > > > CFLAGS += -std=c99 -Wall -pedantic

Re: [dev] suckless.org TLS / HTTPS support

l go all the way. -- Anthony J. Bentley

Re: [dev] [st] Release planned?

Christoph Lohmann writes: > Greetings. > > On Thu, 11 Aug 2016 16:17:30 +0200 Paul Menzel wrote: > > Dear suckless folks, > > > > > > st 0.6 was released in June 2015, that means over a year ago. > > > > Since then, there were another 76 commits included into the master

Re: [dev] neatroff

ut anti-Unix lack of piping blah blah. -- Anthony J. Bentley

Re: [dev] "Note On Webkit Versions"

at you). libagar? -- Anthony J. Bentley

Re: [dev] [dmenu] versioning and patching

Boruch Baum writes: > 1] I want to request that dmenu produce 'correct' output for its > --version command. Currently, the ouput is identical to --help ouput and > gives no version information at all. --help and --version give the same output because they're both invalid options. --

Re: [dev] surf release?

7heo writes: Suckless comes from suck less. We're not here to settle down on wrong solutions. Suckless has settled on the wrong solutions for years. Case in point: customizing software by compiling it. How often do you recompile mv, cp and rm? Even compiling your kernel is something that should

Re: [dev] books that rock

Plauger. My personal favorite computer-related book. -- Anthony J. Bentley

Re: [dev] [style] variable declaration locations and varriable length arrays vs malloc

(dp))) { char buf[strlen(path) + strlen(d-d_name) + 1]; } VLAs are a fundamentally broken feature because they do not allow any error checking. alloca() is the same. -- Anthony J. Bentley

Re: [dev] [dmenu] [PATCHES 1-5] Changes and cleanup

doesn't matter; it is always one tab. The advantage is that you can find the declaration of member foo by grepping for ^Ifoo. Similarly, the function name at beginning of line rule is so you can find the bar() function definition by grepping for ^bar(. -- Anthony J. Bentley

Re: [dev] GCC situation

interesting C project is libfirm+cparser. -- Anthony J. Bentley

Re: [dev] rebooting the web (it was: surf rewrite for WebKit2GTK)

are CSS and Javascript, and the XML bits that are seeping in, like MathML. An XHTML world would embrace those, or replace them with alternatives that are even worse. XML is just SGML with a little air freshener sprayed over it. -- Anthony J. Bentley

Re: [dev] rebooting the web (it was: surf rewrite for WebKit2GTK)

Dmitrij D. Czarkoff writes: Sorry for replying to single message with two. Anthony J. Bentley said: HTML5 has been some steps forward and some steps back. But one of the unambiguously good things they did was drop any pretense of SGML compatibility, and introduce well‐defined error

Re: [dev] surf rewrite for WebKit2GTK

within the realm of sanity: http://duktape.org/ -- Anthony J. Bentley

Re: [dev] Introducing the imagefile-format

FRIGN writes: The only reason I used ntohl() and htonl() here is the fact they're POSIX, and endian.h isn't. Isn't yet... http://austingroupbugs.net/view.php?id=162 -- Anthony J. Bentley

Re: [dev] Why do you use tmux/screen?

keybindings, so I removed irssi from the equation. One window per channel, with one pane running tail -f and the other redirecting text to stdin. Now I only have one set of keybindings to memorize. -- Anthony J. Bentley

Re: [dev] suckless distro

at the cost of complexity, but good makefiles are simple anyway (the one in their example is two lines). -- Anthony J. Bentley

Re: [dev] reboot, arrow in the knee because of the GNU GPL???

discussions. -- Anthony J. Bentley

Re: [dev] reboot, arrow in the knee because of the GNU GPL???

Sylvain BERTRAND writes: On Wed, Jun 25, 2014 at 09:32:33PM -0600, Anthony J. Bentley wrote: Sylvain BERTRAND writes: I firmely disagree with you on this: the event of somebody hurt by the GNU GPL with real life facts is of highest importance for all open source coders. And communication

Re: [dev] [surf] WebKit1 deprecated

, either (though they're working on it). Current released versions do support using libmozjs-1.8.5. I can't speak to how well it works, having never enabled it. No doubt it is incomplete, but it might be in a usable state. -- Anthony J. Bentley

Re: [dev] [GENERAL] License manifest

155 zlib 171 mit 197 unlicense 221 bsd 978 cc0 1234 lgpl3 1577 apache2 1965 cc-by 2154 cc-by-sa 2968 gpl2 4372 lgpl2.1 5214 gpl3 5535 agpl3 26932 total Personally, I stick with ISC. -- Anthony J. Bentley

Re: [dev] [GENERAL] License manifest

off. Yeah, ask Landley how much useful code Busybox got out of all those lawsuits. Corporations are terrible at writing code. We don't want their garbage. -- Anthony J. Bentley

Re: [dev] [GENERAL] License manifest

Christoph Lohmann writes: Greetings. On Mon, 12 May 2014 22:02:57 +0200 Anthony J. Bentley anth...@cathet.us w rote: Christoph Lohmann writes: On Mon, 12 May 2014 18:18:37 +0200 FRIGN d...@frign.de wrote: Well, let's take a look at the GPL first: It's a strict free software

Re: [dev] [GENERAL] License manifest

is complex. -- Anthony J. Bentley

Re: [dev] [GENERAL] License manifest

Nick writes: Quoth Anthony J. Bentley: Nick writes: GPL is nearly as conceptually simple as permissive licenses, I think. ... Clearly, the GPL is just as simple to understand and explain to others as a permissive license. After all, copyright law is complex. I don't think

Re: [dev] tiny pdf viewer (with vim key shortcuts)

patrick295767 patrick295767 writes: What about a lightweight pdf viewer for giving talks ? I am now modifying and recompiling xpdf. It is quite a light pdf viewer. You plug your Linux box, and give a great talk ;) ! MuPDF is nice but has a disgusting license (AGPL).

Re: [dev] Optimizing C compiler c++ compiler/runtime

/ -- Anthony J. Bentley

Re: [dev] [st] problem reading man pages

program generates your manpages. Manuals look fine here with st tip and mandoc... -- Anthony J. Bentley

Re: [dev] [st] problem reading man pages

G David Modica writes: On 19:01 Tue 21 May , Anthony J. Bentley wrote: Would be helpful to specify what program generates your manpages. Manuals l ook fine here with st tip and mandoc... No idea how man pages are generated. I am running Archlinux. Any idea how I can tell how

Re: [dev] [st] [PATCH] 8bit-meta like xterm

, so you can enter *all* latin1-subset-of-Unicode characters with just it. I can appreciate that but memorizing the layout of ISO-8859-1 to do it seems arcane. The mnemonics I define for compose are easier (if a bit slower to type), and even the X11 defaults aren’t too bad. -- Anthony J. Bentley

Re: [dev] ST 0.4 and OpenBSD 5.2

Gregor Best writes: I'm on OpenBSD -current at the moment and the latest git HEAD of st compiles with the following patch: diff --git a/config.mk b/config.mk index 88355c7..f1a24d7 100644 --- a/config.mk +++ b/config.mk @@ -26,3 +26,4 @@ LDFLAGS += -g ${LIBS}

Re: [dev] ST 0.4 and OpenBSD 5.2

Christoph Lohmann writes: Greetings. On Fri, 19 Apr 2013 21:11:22 +0200 Anthony J. Bentley anth...@cathet.us w rote: That's because the st makefiles use $(shell ...) which is a GNUism. I’ve applied your patch. Thanks. Shouldn’t using GNUisms then provide a meaningful error when

Re: [dev] [st] Segmentation fault when clicking the top of window

157067ed6000 1570682d9000 rlib 01 0 /usr/X11R6/lib/libXau.so.9.0 1570631c4000 1570635c9000 rlib 01 0 /usr/X11R6/lib/libXdmcp.so.10.0 15706a60 15706a60 rtld 01 0 /usr/libexec/ld.so full backtrace attached. -- Anthony J

Re: [dev] Adding utmpx stuff

://marc.info/?l=openbsd-techm=127910804900619w=2 -- Anthony J. Bentley

Re: [dev] New friends

and moves audio to userland. I'm curious how the two compare. -- Anthony J. Bentley [1] http://www.openbsd.org/porting/audio-port.html

Re: [dev] sbase TODO patch

by deraadt: rcsid[] and sccsid[] and copyright[] are essentially unmaintained (and unmaintainable). these days, people use source. these id's do not provide any benefit, and do hurt the small install media (the 33,000 line diff is essentially mechanical) -- Anthony J. Bentley

Re: [dev] network usage graphs

On 12/24/11, Szabolcs Nagy n...@port70.net wrote: * hiro 23h...@googlemail.com [2011-12-24 02:00:47 +0100]: Deleting the first line of my log is currently done with sed 1d original.dattemp; mv temp original.dat. Is there no better way? sed -i 1d original.dat That’s a GNUism.

Re: [dev] Re: sbase

for that anyway? -- Anthony J. Bentley

Re: [dev] suckless wget/curl

implementation, or b) if there is already a suckless one, pointing it out to them so they can use it. I don’t think they have implemented anything yet. -- Anthony J. Bentley

Re: [dev] Re: Version control for Sta.li

I just found a version control system that I hadn't heard of and might wo rk well for Stali: Fossil. It's by the author of SQLite Here’s an interview with the author. http://cisx1.uma.maine.edu/~wbackman/bsdtalk/bsdtalk194.ogg Word in the grapevine is that NetBSD is switching to it.

Re: [dev] browser flash videos and mpeg plugins

in memory and you can grab it from there. -- Anthony J. Bentley

Re: [dev] browser flash videos and mpeg plugins

it, don’t trust random scripts from the Internet, read it through first… -- Anthony J. Bentley

Re: [dev] Stripping html from email

Is there currently a tool or script that I can use to strip html from emails? Basically, it should work like this: - Read the message from stdin - If there is no html, leave as is - If it finds both html and plain text, strip the html attachment - If it finds html but no plain text, leave

[dev] st on OpenBSD?

Hi guys, I am interested in using st on OpenBSD, but it does not compile since OpenBSD does not implement posix_openpt et al: st.c: In function 'ttynew': st.c:243: warning: implicit declaration of function 'posix_openpt' st.c:245: warning: implicit declaration of function 'grantpt' st.c:247:

Re: [dev] Re: stali and OpenBSD userland etc.

On Sat, Apr 10, 2010 at 06:26:12PM +0200, finkler wrote: What is missing in OBSD: base64 It's not quite the same, but OpenBSD does have b64encode/b64decode. Part of uuencode I believe. --Anthony J. Bentley

Re: [dev] [sw] Suckless web-framework

hubbub? I'd love an excuse to make a project with it. --Anthony J. Bentley