On Wed, 6 Sep 2000, John Summerfield wrote:
>> Unlikely. GLINT crashed a lot, and was very buggy. A lot of
>> people (myself included) hated it.. Also it is a TCL/TK app,
>> which likely was why it was so buggy..
>>
>> The program became obsolete when GNOME/GTK/KDE/QT apps came out
>> to do the job. You'd need to recode it to support the new
>> RPM. It is however GPL I believe so you'd be free to pick up
>>
>Not it didn't.
John, it is obvious that neither of us is lying here, but both of
us had very different experiences with Glint. I had so much
trouble with it that I gave up on it. I was told it was buggy
and would be replaced, and it was buggy and was replaced. The
fact that it might have worked for some people doesn't mean that
it wasn't buggy. Netscape is buggy too, and crashes for me
daily, but I know people that use it - the same version, that
haven't had it crash in months. That doesn't mean that Netscape
isn't buggy.
>I couldn't find anything that provided the same or equivalent
>functionality. If others found something, they'd not be so upset.
I found something, but it isn't GUI. "purp" is an ncurses based
RPM frontend, and it works excellent. I never had any trouble
with it for a long time, and it isn't even version 1.x yet I
don't believe. All GUI RPM frontends I've used have destroyed
stuff on me... I like the idea of GNORPM though, and rather than
seeing it disappear and be replaced by resurrecting an ancient
buggy tcl/tk app from the grave, I'd like to see someone debug
GNORPM and fix it. Since RPM is pretty much undocumented (up to
date documentation easily available that is), it is hard for
anyone other than the RPM folk to fix gnorpm. I'm betting that
Red Hat is working on either fixing it, or replacing it with
something better in-house. Makes sense.
At any rate, I doubt highly that they will resurrect glint, so
about the only thing one can do is download glint and start
hacking tcl/tk with no rpm documentation. ;o) Or - file
bugzilla reports on gnorpm. The sad thing is a bug report could
mean that your rpmdb just got trashed... ;o(
Take care,
TTYL
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