Re: Moving from ~/.cedit to ~/.mc

2001-09-27 Thread Miguel de Icaza
I suggest that MC doesn't use the .cedit directory and uses .mc for the files that it currently looks for in .cedit. The main reason is that the Syntax file conflicts with Cooledit. Do we have any words from Paul on integrating maybe the new cooledit with MC? Miguel.

Re: New website and ftp server

2001-12-08 Thread Miguel de Icaza
If anyone needs access to ftp.gnome.org, please send me your public ssh key and we will have the account open. Miguel. ___ Mc-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/mc-devel

Re: Valgrind vs. MAD

2002-07-31 Thread Miguel de Icaza
Hello, Although Valgrind is currently limited to one OS and one architecture, it does such a great job, that we should consider removing MAD (memory allocation debugger) from the MC sources. This is a very good idea. In the past very few developers used MAD if any, mostly those debugging

Re: [PATCH] Properly dispaying log files from /var/log

2005-01-29 Thread Miguel de Icaza
Hello, This patch prevent displaying log files (like log.1) from /var/log directory as a man pages. It's just a workaround, I'm working on the better solutions but it will take me some more time. Maybe a more solid path would be to use the `type' functionality in mc.ext.in to flag troff

Re: start time

2005-01-30 Thread Miguel de Icaza
Hello, I have applied this patch to the CVS repository with a few changes (configure.in checks, plus made sure that the style matched the rest of the code). To which branches? Only to HEAD or also to mc-4.6.1-PREsomething? Only to HEAD, I did not want to step on an already tagged tree.

Restoring the functionality of Alt-o

2005-01-30 Thread Miguel de Icaza
Hello, A long time ago I added Alt-o as a binding that would help in navigating directories. The idea is that in one panel you press Alt-o, and if the selection is on a directory, it will load the contents of the highlighted directory into the other panel. If no directory was selected, this

Re: Restoring the functionality of Alt-o

2005-01-31 Thread Miguel de Icaza
Hello, Let me propose some possibilities: 1) Revert Alt-o - annoyed users because Alt-o suddenly changes. 2) Create an alternate keyboard shortcut such as Alt-i that acts like the old Alt-o. 3) Keep Alt-o shortcut and switch between old/new Alt-o in Options/Configuration.

Re: start time

2005-01-31 Thread Miguel de Icaza
Hey, I have applied this patch to the CVS repository with a few changes (configure.in checks, plus made sure that the style matched the rest of the code). I think this patch is reasonable. BTW, I did not add ChangeLog entries for these getgrouplist() patches. This patch looks

Re: [patch] Synchronization of the panels (fwd)

2005-02-26 Thread Miguel de Icaza
Hello, This is an updated version of the dnotify patch from Andrey Siver. The patch still needs a lot of work, for example, why do we have an include file at all with the code? (The core of the code lives in sync.inc). Configure patches, fall back patches are missing as well. Miguel.

Re: [patch] Synchronization of the panels

2005-02-26 Thread Miguel de Icaza
Hello, Please consider my patch to synchronize the panels with hard drives state. note that dnotify prevents a watched directory from being unmounted (one of the reasons why it is being replaced). that means one has to leave the dir in question in both panels. no problem as such, but

Re: New Maintainer for MC Project?

2005-06-05 Thread Miguel de Icaza
Hello, Thanks for offering to become the new maintainer for Midnight Commander. I do not want you to become the Project Manager for a number of reasons: * In open source, maintainers are chosen by their merits, before today I have never heard of you.It is a

Re: New Maintainer for MC Project?

2005-06-05 Thread Miguel de Icaza
Greetings, Your last email proved my point. Miguel. ___ Mc-devel mailing list http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/mc-devel

Re: Release procedure

2005-06-06 Thread Miguel de Icaza
Hello, Roland, I like your proposal, for a major release version. But I got the feeling that we could go back to bi-weekly releases, so with a quick release schedule, translators just need to make sure they can catch the next train if their translations are not available. I have

Re: Release procedure

2005-06-07 Thread Miguel de Icaza
Hello, Please use MC_4_6_1_PRE for the release of 4.6.1. Then we can use HEAD for 4.6.2 and onwards. I second that. Sounds good. ___ Mc-devel mailing list http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/mc-devel

Re: Release procedure

2005-06-07 Thread Miguel de Icaza
Hello, I have made a tarball of the current trunk release and fixing a few issues in make distcheck, the question that remains is: what version should we use? What did you fix? Make distcheck was broken, look at the dist-hook target, it would not build with VPATH/different prefixes.

Re: Release procedure

2005-06-07 Thread Miguel de Icaza
hello, I have a tarball made from the branch: http://primates.ximian.com/~miguel/mc/tar.mc-4.6.1-pre5a.tar.gz I can rename this to 4.6.1 if people want. Miguel. ___ Mc-devel mailing list http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/mc-devel

Re: mc release schedule?

2005-06-17 Thread Miguel de Icaza
Hello, Both you and pchel have put out tarballs, and we're nearing the time in which you wanted to see a release. After talking to Leonard den Ottolander off list, the question was asked where we're at with that process? Specifically, has anyone reconsiled your tarball with pchel's, and do

Re: To release or not to release ...

2005-06-30 Thread Miguel de Icaza
Hello, Is a release going to happen anytime soon ? What are we waiting for ? I did a release which got posted here. Then a kind developer told me that I skipped one number (I do not think its a major issue, and he re-released) and posted here. The only issue is that I need to get an account

Re: Let's have a release!

2005-07-20 Thread Miguel de Icaza
Hello, I think it is time to finally have a release of 4.6.1. I'm satisfied with having had an official pre release and a few weeks time for testing. Afaict all the other developers are anxious for a release as well. Let's have it! If Pavel does not beat me to it, I will do the release on

Midnight Commander 4.6.1 has been released.

2005-07-23 Thread Miguel de Icaza
Hello, A new version of Midnight Commander, an easy to use console-based file manager for Unix systems has been released, it is available from: http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/utils/file/managers/mc/mc-4.6.1.tar.gz md5sum: 18b20db6e40480a53bac2870c56fc3c4 mc-4.6.1.tar.gz The

Re: GNU Midnight Commander 4.6.2-pre1

2007-09-13 Thread Miguel de Icaza
Hello Pavel, Do you have a list of changes in this release? Hello, I've prepared the fist pre-release of GNU Midnight Commander 4.6.2 . Please, download it and give it a try. I've been waiting for several days to get access to ftp.gnu.org so that I can upload the pre-release there,

Re: Further Midnight Commander development

2008-12-18 Thread Miguel de Icaza
Hello, My suggestion would be to have at first a look who wants to help to develop mc further and then where to do this. Agreed, this initial post is light on the details as to what the changes are, ChangeLog entries and the documentation. The site is in Russian which does not help very

Re: Further Midnight Commander development

2008-12-29 Thread Miguel de Icaza
Hellom IMHO we should start with the latest stable release (4.6.1 ?) and apply all the vendor/distro patches floating around step by step (*1). Once that's done, we should make a new official release very soon. I agree with this approach, we should start by reviewing those patches as well,

Re: [PATCH] segfault-on-invalid-mtime fix

2008-12-29 Thread Miguel de Icaza
Hello, This patch looks good, but there are two uses of strftime as well, it might make sense to wrap the use of strftime in a new routine that always make this check (when localtime returns NULL). mc-4.6.1/src/util.c ___ Mc-devel mailing list

Re: [PATCH] some bash support fixups

2008-12-29 Thread Miguel de Icaza
Hello, This patch looks pretty dubious, specially considering that MC is used on system other than latest Linux distro with the latest bash. Do we have more information as to what this patch is trying to fix? ___ Mc-devel mailing list

Re: [PATCH] ebuild syntax file

2008-12-29 Thread Miguel de Icaza
This patch looks like an extension, it looks harmless and should go into the tree. http://patches.metux.de/ ___ Mc-devel mailing list http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/mc-devel

Re: [PATCH] cons.saver: non-blocking console

2008-12-29 Thread Miguel de Icaza
Hello, Opening the console in non-blocking mode is a bad idea, as it means that every call that is done later on the console_fd needs to check for EWOULDBLOCK. Most of the time, it would be not return that, it would only return that under unique situations which means that testing this

Re: [PATCH] find file fixups

2008-12-29 Thread Miguel de Icaza
This patch looks OK to go in. ___ Mc-devel mailing list http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/mc-devel ___ Mc-devel mailing list http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/mc-devel

Re: [PATCH] largefile fixups

2008-12-29 Thread Miguel de Icaza
This patch looks OK to go in. ___ Mc-devel mailing list http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/mc-devel ___ Mc-devel mailing list http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/mc-devel

Re: HAVE_MMAP still necessary ?

2008-12-29 Thread Miguel de Icaza
a) cmd.c: compare_files() - it uses the mmap() call directly (w/o going over mcvfs), and it seems to work on local files only. wouldn't it make sense to let it run via mcvfs ? b) view.c: it tries to mmap() in the file, obviously to let the kernel do all the loading. BUT:

Re: [bug #25438] Crash when editing a file with a nonexistent syntax file included by ~/.mc/cedit/Syntax

2009-01-30 Thread Miguel de Icaza
Hello, I've asked Miguel and Pavel several times to lock the bugtracker and to add a hint on the project page that the development has moved to www.midnight- commander.org but nothing happened. I would be happy if finally the bugtracker on savannah could be closed. Oops. I am sorry,

Re: Abstracting away glib?

2009-02-05 Thread Miguel De Icaza
Hello, a) memory requirements - as you probably know glib is being used for a lot of projects, to the point that it's hard to avoid at all, even on embedded; on platforms with really constrained memory (easy to OOM) glib is probably not ideal, but to be honest, I can't imagine running mc

mc and embedded lib.

2009-02-05 Thread Miguel de Icaza
Hello guys, As we discussed on the mc-devel channel today, here is a patch that allows Midnight Commander to be built with the lightweight Embedded glib implementation, the patch is against the mc-4.6.2-pre1 release. It is a proof of concept, as I hardcoded the location in my disk where

Re: Further Midnight Commander development

2009-02-13 Thread Miguel de Icaza
Hello, I agree with the sentiments expressed by Pavel Tsekov. If you guys have collected a new set of patches to Midnight Commander, let us get those patches posted to the tracking software in midnight-commander.org and discuss those changes as a community. Pavel is right that many

Re: Further Midnight Commander development

2009-02-16 Thread Miguel de Icaza
Hello, It is very common in every project I participate to use different mailing list for these different goals: users, developer discussion, bug tracking and commits. It makes it easier to filter, and it allows for people that care about one particular area to focus on that area.

Re: Re[2]: Further Midnight Commander development

2009-02-16 Thread Miguel de Icaza
Hello, I am not really unavailable. In fact if someone bothered to ping me personally I would have noticed immediately. The list traffic was stalled for quite some time and I haven't been reading it on a regular basis for a while so I missed the interesting part. I agree with Pavel here.

Re: Disable cvs/savannah

2009-02-16 Thread Miguel de Icaza
Hello, 2.) cvs is in my eyes not very optimal for working together. git is better for such an task in my eyes. Probably the most interesting feature of using GIT is that everyone can have a full check out of the code, and it would be easier to maintain branches and maintain changes

Re: Re[2]: Further Midnight Commander development

2009-02-21 Thread Miguel de Icaza
Hello, It was *YOU* destroyed that by climbing out of your deep dark tomb and behaving like the old king coming back which everyone has to submit to. It was you caused a lot of wasting resources (not just computer's but also human's) for your personal crusade against a lot of things we've done

Re: Further Midnight Commander development

2009-02-21 Thread Miguel de Icaza
Hello, You went light on the details, other than saying 'you totally' repeatedly. * you totally ignored recommendation for defering this decision until eglib becomes production-ready It is very simple. The majority of people to not have a problem with glib, and the size is not an issue.

Re: Re[2]: Further Midnight Commander development

2009-02-21 Thread Miguel de Icaza
*1) git://git.metux.de/free-mc.git Thanks for the link. I guess we can go and pick any good changes from there and merge them into mc now. Miguel. ___ Mc-devel mailing list http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/mc-devel

Re: Cocoa front end

2009-02-21 Thread Miguel de Icaza
Hello, Looking at the code, it appears as though there may be some refactoring required to abstract the UI a bit more before trying to slap an objective-c gui on there (I write C++ almost exclusively nowadays and haven't been in the pure C world for quite some time :D). Does that seem

Re: Release out mc-4.7.0

2009-12-25 Thread Miguel de Icaza
Hello, I did not install this update, but the previous version remapped Control-T to be some sort of selector for encodings, and it used to be tag-current-file. Tag current file is necessary for older terminals, and it is also the binding used for other terminal applications. Miguel.