On Tue, Sep 05, 2000 at 02:00:42AM -0500, Joseph Carter wrote: > On Mon, Sep 04, 2000 at 11:54:05PM -0700, Joey Hess wrote: > > > Software has bugs, it's a fact of life. New software is more likely to > > > have unknown bugs that affect more people. What makes the Helix packages > > > so nice is the turnaround time for fixes. I don't know how they do it, > > > but they do. > > > > Maybe they have a dinstall delay of less than 24 hours :-P > > Maybe so. I'd still like to see someone take up maintenance of jinstall > and package it personally. I'd do it myself if I could grok the perl. > Perl so far is a language that I just don't understand. It defies the > conventional structured thinking I apply to the way I write my code.
Well, if jinstall is badly structured, only I can take the blame ;-) However, it's a trivial pattern matching hack to move files into the right directories, and totally fails to do any of the clever stuff dinstall does. It did all I needed for gnome-staging at the time.. Jules -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
