Re: [PATCH] space on prompt bugfix

2005-05-23 Thread Oswald Buddenhagen
On Mon, May 23, 2005 at 11:12:21PM +0200, Leonard den Ottolander wrote: > On Mon, 2005-05-23 at 22:56, Oswald Buddenhagen wrote: > > this paranoid checking policy doesn't get us anywhere but to the current > > state of stagnation. > > Bollocks. [how reviewing is good, etc.] > i was talking about

[bug #7872] Suggested changes in Python syntax bindings

2005-05-23 Thread Leonard den Ottolander
Follow-up Comment #9, bug #7872 (project mc): I just don't feel like actually verifying this. Duh. ___ Reply to this item at: ___

Re: [PATCH] space on prompt bugfix

2005-05-23 Thread Leonard den Ottolander
Hi Oswald, On Mon, 2005-05-23 at 22:56, Oswald Buddenhagen wrote: > of course not. i had a look and have not found something fundamentally > broken about it. if a "real" mc developer would do the same, it should > be totally sufficient. I'm not sure if I would qualify. > this paranoid checking p

[bug #7872] Suggested changes in Python syntax bindings

2005-05-23 Thread Oswald Buddenhagen
Follow-up Comment #8, bug #7872 (project mc): i'd prefer to have the exact match as a simple correctness check. oh, well. """ is just the same as ", except that you can embed physical newlines in this type of string. actually reading the BNF in the page i linked to would have revealed that (as i

Re: [bug #7872] Suggested changes in Python syntax bindings

2005-05-23 Thread Leonard den Ottolander
Hi Pavel, On Mon, 2005-05-23 at 22:43, Pavel Roskin wrote: > On Mon, 2005-05-23 at 20:08 +, Leonard den Ottolander wrote: > > Follow-up Comment #7, bug #7872 (project mc): > > > > My question is "why do we need the extra code to match '/usr/bin/env' if all > > we need to match is 'perl'?" It

Re: [PATCH] space on prompt bugfix

2005-05-23 Thread Oswald Buddenhagen
On Mon, May 23, 2005 at 10:44:01PM +0200, Leonard den Ottolander wrote: > On Sat, 2005-05-21 at 20:07, Oswald Buddenhagen wrote: > > On Wed, Apr 27, 2005 at 11:24:06PM +0200, Leonard den Ottolander wrote: > > > So can I commit this? I'll verify that it works first ;) , but the patch > > > seems str

Re: [PATCH] space on prompt bugfix

2005-05-23 Thread Leonard den Ottolander
Hi Oswald, On Sat, 2005-05-21 at 20:07, Oswald Buddenhagen wrote: > On Wed, Apr 27, 2005 at 11:24:06PM +0200, Leonard den Ottolander wrote: > > Any objections against me committing this patch? The "real command line" > > argument seems bogus, as a "real command line" would accept a "command" > > e

Re: [bug #7872] Suggested changes in Python syntax bindings

2005-05-23 Thread Pavel Roskin
On Mon, 2005-05-23 at 20:08 +, Leonard den Ottolander wrote: > Follow-up Comment #7, bug #7872 (project mc): > > My question is "why do we need the extra code to match '/usr/bin/env' if all > we need to match is 'perl'?" It seems redundant. Like trying to match > '/usr/bin/perl', '/usr/local/b

Re: before committing translation files ...

2005-05-23 Thread Pavel Roskin
On Mon, 2005-05-23 at 11:58 +0200, Roland Illig wrote: > Pavel Roskin wrote: > > On Thu, 2005-05-19 at 13:24 +0200, Roland Illig wrote: > > > >>please run the ./strip-location.sh script on all files you want to > >>commit. The locations are only redundant information for the translator. > >>To r

Re: Addressing MC stagnation.

2005-05-23 Thread Leonard den Ottolander
Hi Jindrich, Miguel, On Mon, 2005-05-23 at 12:28, Jindrich Novy wrote: > On Sun, 2005-05-22 at 17:46 -0400, Miguel de Icaza wrote: > > * Release-often: MC has not been officially released for a > > long time. I propose that the current CVS gets released > > as MC 5.0 and if any i

[bug #7872] Suggested changes in Python syntax bindings

2005-05-23 Thread Leonard den Ottolander
Follow-up Comment #7, bug #7872 (project mc): My question is "why do we need the extra code to match '/usr/bin/env' if all we need to match is 'perl'?" It seems redundant. Like trying to match '/usr/bin/perl', '/usr/local/bin/perl' etc. instead of just 'perl'. Regarding the syntax additions: As

Re: Some questions

2005-05-23 Thread Leonard den Ottolander
Hi Pavel, On Mon, 2005-05-23 at 03:13, Pavel Roskin wrote: > > Not doing a release for years even though there has been significant > > progress is what affects the credibility of the project. > > I agree. ... > I agree except the fact that nobody has ever told me that all e-mail was > read and

Re: Addressing MC stagnation.

2005-05-23 Thread Leonard den Ottolander
Hi Pavel, On Mon, 2005-05-23 at 03:20, Pavel Roskin wrote: > > I would suggest if such a step would be made we use the MC_4_6_1_PRE for > > this. HEAD is somewhat experimental. > > I disagree. We would confuse everybody. The 4.6.1 branch should be > released as 4.6.1 if at all (maybe as 4.6.2 i

Re: Addressing MC stagnation.

2005-05-23 Thread Leonard den Ottolander
Hello Miguel, On Mon, 2005-05-23 at 17:16, Miguel de Icaza wrote: > > >For the Wiki, all we need is a domain name (or we can keep it under > > > the obscure url we can put it on). > > > > I have midnightcommander.org registered on Gandi. I can set its IP > > address to anything. But I don't

[bug #7872] Suggested changes in Python syntax bindings

2005-05-23 Thread Oswald Buddenhagen
Follow-up Comment #6, bug #7872 (project mc): > [...] We could just as well start matching all possible paths to the binaries. > i can't claim i'd understand that paragraph. :} > [...] If you could comment on the usefulness [...] > i'm can't claim to be a python wiz, either. http://docs.python.o

Re: Addressing MC stagnation - wiki example

2005-05-23 Thread Miguel de Icaza
Hello, Thanks for the offers to host the Wiki. At this point, I would like to use the setup that we have at Novell, if only because we get full time system administrators and backup for free. Miguel. ___ Mc-devel mailing list http://mail.gno

Re: Addressing MC stagnation - wiki example

2005-05-23 Thread William Scott Lockwood III
Hi all. I own LRSE Hosting. If you need hosting, I'd be happy to setup a virtual server for MC to host a wiki/slash/scoop whatever site. Free of charge, of course. I'd just be happy to be able to give a little back for such a great program. -- Regards, Scott --- [ Peter Masiar ] ===--- > Pa

Re: Addressing MC stagnation.

2005-05-23 Thread Jindrich Novy
Hello mc-devel, Miguel, On Sun, 2005-05-22 at 17:46 -0400, Miguel de Icaza wrote: > Hello, > >Thanks for raising this issue up, I think that we should proceed in > various stages to address some of the problems that we have today in mc: > > * The website should move to a Wiki. > >

Re: GCC-4.0 warnings

2005-05-23 Thread Roland Illig
Pavel Roskin wrote: While the code is correct, it's not obvious for gcc. The "knee-jerk" reaction could be to initialize val in caller(), but sometimes it may be better to fix callee(), especially if it's used many times. Even more so if it's not documented that the pointer won't be initialized

Re: before committing translation files ...

2005-05-23 Thread Roland Illig
Pavel Roskin wrote: On Thu, 2005-05-19 at 13:24 +0200, Roland Illig wrote: please run the ./strip-location.sh script on all files you want to commit. The locations are only redundant information for the translator. To regenerate the locations, just run make po-update. Example: cd mc/