Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: RFC: sh versionator.eclass

2007-10-02 Thread Alex Tarkovsky
On 10/2/07, Roy Marples [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I accept the argument for initscripts, since an embedded system is not likely to have bash. But for compile-time (which shouldn't happen on an embedded target) there simply isn't any real benefit to end-users that I can see. The benefit is

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: John Jawed Alex Tarkovsky's einput eclass

2007-07-07 Thread Alex Tarkovsky
On 7/7/07, Steve Long [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm ofc not including fetch-restricted which also require interaction, although that is standardised enough for a script to deal with[1]. Having found this for games, I can deal with that too ofc, but I still think the I'm not sure whether special

Re: [gentoo-dev] New Developer: Christina Fullam (musikc)

2007-04-22 Thread Alex Tarkovsky
On 4/22/07, Chrissy Fullam [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: don't you have some liveCD stuff to work on? :-P I like this new dev already. ;) --Alex -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: [gentoo-dev] baselayout-2 and volumes (raid, lvm, crypt, etc)

2007-04-13 Thread Alex Tarkovsky
On 4/13/07, Mike Frysinger [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Friday 13 April 2007, Alex Tarkovsky wrote: It's mid-April and 2007.0 is still nowhere in sight you're clearly not part of the release process Can you tell us the release date then? I didn't think so. :) --Alex -- [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: [gentoo-dev] baselayout-2 and volumes (raid, lvm, crypt, etc)

2007-04-13 Thread Alex Tarkovsky
On 4/13/07, Jeffrey Gardner [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Alex Tarkovsky wrote: Can you tell us the release date then? I didn't think so. :) --Alex Dickish messages like this one might possibly earn you some cold shoulder or hostility from people who work very hard for you... 1) It's

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: 2007.0 release

2007-04-13 Thread Alex Tarkovsky
On 4/13/07, Chris Gianelloni [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, 2007-04-13 at 21:16 +0200, Jakub Moc wrote: I'm not implying there's anything wrong w/ restricting the bug; just that pointing users here to it won't get them very far. ;) *I* didn't point anyone to that bug, as I knew it was

[gentoo-dev] Re: Little respect towards Daniel please

2007-03-04 Thread Alex Tarkovsky
Bryan Østergaard kloeri at gentoo.org writes: On Sun, Mar 04, 2007 at 11:16:47PM +0100, Jakub Moc wrote: Alexander Færøy napsal(a): On Sun, Mar 04, 2007 at 09:51:34PM +, Stuart Herbert wrote: What do you plan on doing next with your time? How cute, but please take this in

Re: [gentoo-dev] Project Sunrise resumed again (was Resignation)

2006-08-02 Thread Alex Tarkovsky
On 8/2/06, Ciaran McCreesh [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The alternative to elitism is mediocrity. Would you like Gentoo to be a mediocre distribution? Every time you post it's like fingernails on a chalkboard... http://arcanux.org/scarecrow.png Cheers. -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-dev] Project Sunrise resumed again (was Resignation)

2006-08-02 Thread Alex Tarkovsky
On 8/2/06, Stephen P. Becker [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Every time you post it's like fingernails on a chalkboard... http://arcanux.org/scarecrow.png Ha ha ha! Oh gosh that's funny! That's really funny! Do you photoshop your own material? Do you? Because that is so fresh. Ciaranm is like a

Re: [gentoo-dev] Resignation (was: Project Sunrise resumed)

2006-08-02 Thread Alex Tarkovsky
On 8/2/06, Roy Marples [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wednesday 02 August 2006 15:27, Paul de Vrieze wrote: On Monday 31 July 2006 04:28, Dan Meltzer wrote: 1) Users can submit patches/ideas to bugs.g.o at whatever frequency they desire, contributing to gentoo casually. And the patch hanging

Re: [gentoo-dev] Project Sunrise resumed

2006-07-30 Thread Alex Tarkovsky
On 7/30/06, Stephen P. Becker [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: There is nothing you or anyone else can say that will make me think otherwise, You won't listen, yet you expect to be listened to. Speaking as a user and lover of Gentoo I believe you should resign as a developer. On this list and on IRC,

Re: [gentoo-dev] Resignation (was: Project Sunrise resumed)

2006-07-30 Thread Alex Tarkovsky
On 7/30/06, Brett I. Holcomb [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: My concerns - first for my systems - are that it is allowing essentially anybody to submit almost anything with no QA. This no QA accusation is a complete myth. QA led by actual Gentoo developers is indeed in place at Sunrise [1]. Every

Re: [gentoo-dev] Resignation (was: Project Sunrise resumed)

2006-07-30 Thread Alex Tarkovsky
On 7/30/06, Ciaran McCreesh [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sun, 30 Jul 2006 23:20:16 -0500 Alex Tarkovsky [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: | This no QA accusation is a complete myth. QA led by actual Gentoo | developers is indeed in place at Sunrise [1]. Did you look at *which* actual Gentoo developers

Re: [gentoo-dev] Einput eclass

2006-07-24 Thread Alex Tarkovsky
On 7/23/06, John Jawed [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Nice work on this, it's looking good now. Is there a reason the leading asterisk was dropped? Having it there might be good for readability as well as keeping in line with the look here (einfo, eerror, ewarn, etc) motif in portage. I was indeed

Re: [gentoo-dev] Einput eclass

2006-07-24 Thread Alex Tarkovsky
Updated version. I had forgotten to remove the case-insensitive stuff from einput_list(). Input is now case-sensitive, as ebuild devs may want, for example, r and R to represent two different (but related) choices. Also did a little tidying. einput.eclass Description: Binary data

Re: [gentoo-dev] Einput eclass

2006-07-24 Thread Alex Tarkovsky
To ensure the global vars play nicely in the Portage environment I've renamed a few, and moved a couple more to functions as locals and literal strings. Also improved on the inline documentation and renamed a couple of functions to something more intuitive. einput.eclass Description: Binary

Re: [gentoo-dev] Einput eclass

2006-07-24 Thread Alex Tarkovsky
On 7/24/06, John Jawed [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Updated version is up at http://jawed.name/dev/gentoo/einput.eclass now. The version you have up there isn't the latest actually, see the attachment in the post you just replied to. :) -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-dev] Einput eclass

2006-07-23 Thread Alex Tarkovsky
Attached is an overhaul of John's code. Aside from some bugfixes and readability improvements, the most significant changes are: - Renamed functions to follow de facto and emerging Portage API naming conventions. - Validation of input for the list prompt and confirmation prompt functions. -