Re: [Fink-devel] Hey there, folks, it's tracker time again

2004-01-08 Thread Max Horn
Am 08.01.2004 um 04:39 schrieb Daniel Macks: On Wed, Jan 07, 2004 at 10:16:02PM -0500, Kevin Horton wrote: At 20:35 -0500 7/1/04, you wrote: How about subscribing to the fink trackers mailing list and have procmail call a script that updates your thing based on that? Given that the messages are

Re: [Fink-devel] Hey there, folks, it's tracker time again

2004-01-08 Thread Kevin Horton
At 14:41 +0100 8/1/04, Max Horn wrote: Am 08.01.2004 um 04:39 schrieb Daniel Macks: On Wed, Jan 07, 2004 at 10:16:02PM -0500, Kevin Horton wrote: At 20:35 -0500 7/1/04, you wrote: How about subscribing to the fink trackers mailing list and have procmail call a script that updates your thing based

Re: [Fink-devel] Hey there, folks, it's tracker time again

2004-01-08 Thread Martin Costabel
Kevin Horton wrote: Yeah, I suspected the functionality of the package tracker was a good part of the problem. It really needs some sort of way to differentiate items that are waiting for the submitter to respond from items that are waiting for an official fink person to tend to. But, I

Re: [Fink-devel] Hey there, folks, it's tracker time again

2004-01-08 Thread Daniel Macks
On Thu, Jan 08, 2004 at 10:12:17PM +0100, Martin Costabel wrote: Kevin Horton wrote: Yeah, I suspected the functionality of the package tracker was a good part of the problem. It really needs some sort of way to differentiate items that are waiting for the submitter to respond from items

Re: [Fink-devel] Hey there, folks, it's tracker time again

2004-01-07 Thread Kevin Horton
At 21:40 -0500 6/1/04, James Gibbs wrote: I've had some packages in the tracker since Thanksgiving (that's November for you non-Americans). I'd greatly appreciate it if someone could take the time to pop them into cvs. In particular, AdvanceMAME and AdvanceMenu are two awesome programs that

Re: [Fink-devel] Hey there, folks, it's tracker time again

2004-01-07 Thread James Gibbs
On Jan 7, 2004, at 5:34 PM, Kevin Horton wrote: I have been a bit puzzled over where the package tracker fits in the big scheme of things. There are obviously a lot of resources devoted to improving the fink program itself, when from the average users point of view it seems to work very

Re: [Fink-devel] Hey there, folks, it's tracker time again

2004-01-07 Thread Daniel Macks
On Wed, Jan 07, 2004 at 06:16:25PM -0500, James Gibbs wrote: On Jan 7, 2004, at 5:34 PM, Kevin Horton wrote: I think the average user would hope for a continual stream of new packages, which means you need people to keep feeding the package tracker with new submissions. However, there

Re: [Fink-devel] Hey there, folks, it's tracker time again

2004-01-07 Thread Kevin Horton
At 18:47 -0500 7/1/04, Daniel Macks wrote: On Wed, Jan 07, 2004 at 06:16:25PM -0500, James Gibbs wrote: On Jan 7, 2004, at 5:34 PM, Kevin Horton wrote: I think the average user would hope for a continual stream of new packages, which means you need people to keep feeding the package tracker

Re: [Fink-devel] Hey there, folks, it's tracker time again

2004-01-07 Thread Daniel Macks
On Wed, Jan 07, 2004 at 07:16:45PM -0500, Kevin Horton wrote: Yeah, I suspected the functionality of the package tracker was a good part of the problem. It really needs some sort of way to differentiate items that are waiting for the submitter to respond from items that are waiting for

Re: [Fink-devel] Hey there, folks, it's tracker time again

2004-01-07 Thread Kevin Horton
At 20:35 -0500 7/1/04, Daniel Macks wrote: On Wed, Jan 07, 2004 at 07:16:45PM -0500, Kevin Horton wrote: Yeah, I suspected the functionality of the package tracker was a good part of the problem. It really needs some sort of way to differentiate items that are waiting for the submitter to

Re: [Fink-devel] Hey there, folks, it's tracker time again

2004-01-07 Thread Kevin Horton
At 20:35 -0500 7/1/04, you wrote: How about subscribing to the fink trackers mailing list and have procmail call a script that updates your thing based on that? Given that the messages are in a well-defined format, doesn't sound too hard to parse out the tracker name and item summary, a URL to the

Re: [Fink-devel] Hey there, folks, it's tracker time again

2004-01-07 Thread Daniel Macks
On Wed, Jan 07, 2004 at 10:16:02PM -0500, Kevin Horton wrote: At 20:35 -0500 7/1/04, you wrote: How about subscribing to the fink trackers mailing list and have procmail call a script that updates your thing based on that? Given that the messages are in a well-defined format, doesn't sound

[Fink-devel] Hey there, folks, it's tracker time again

2004-01-06 Thread James Gibbs
I've had some packages in the tracker since Thanksgiving (that's November for you non-Americans). I'd greatly appreciate it if someone could take the time to pop them into cvs. In particular, AdvanceMAME and AdvanceMenu are two awesome programs that are much better on a Mac than xMAME, since