>>>>> "John" == John Lapeyre <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
John> On Mon, 21 Sep 1998, Jason Gunthorpe wrote:
jgg>
jgg> We have rather a bit of a problem.. As it stands it is not
jgg> possible to locate the source tar.gz and .dsc without
jgg> searching in all cases,
There's so many packages now I end up searching using the CGI site
or `locate' on master anyhow. :-)
John> I also sometimes wonder about the fact that, while we
John> encourage people to look at the source, it is in fact kind
John> of difficult to wade through the documents to find how to
John> get and unpack debian source files. I hope apt-get source
John> remedies this.
@drifting{
It just occured to me that perhaps it would be good to have a master
CVS archive of Debian, and the package source could be downloaded and
installed as now, using ftp or the new `apt-get'... I guess that
would also perform a `dpkg-source -x'. The source packages could
contain `CVS' directories that would link them back to the canonical
Debian anon ro-CVS, so folks could `cvs update' and `cvs diff'.
@offtopic{
I've tried to build Modula 3, (thinking of the fabled `cvsup'.) but
it bombed trying to build `m3gdb'. I've not tried to find out what's
wrong yet. It's huge; I think too big for a guy on the wrong end of
a modem connection to really do right. I think a small team at a
university ought to do this one. It looks like a neat language; very
archane syntax, perhaps, but good features, and LOTS of great example
code to learn from.}}
