On Wed Sep 06 2000 at 02:53, "Mike A. Harris" wrote:
> 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
[ ... ]
They should have fixed the bugs and improved on it (or even ported
it to a gtk/gnome interface), rather than lump us all with something
so brain-dead and frustrating to use as it is.
> >I couldn't find anything that provided the same or equivalent
> >functionality. If others found something, they'd not be so upset.
(I'd include myself as "others" here" :)
> I found something, but it isn't GUI. "purp" is an ncurses based
> RPM frontend, and it works excellent. I never had any trouble
Never heard of it, but thanks for the tip.
> 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(
It's not exactly buggy, just VERY POORLY designed. I mean, it just
isn't intuiative, nor is it in any way flexable. For example, it
demands to see your rpm database, and oftentimes it just isn't what
you want to happen.
So, not a bug. It needs a total re-write.
(Aside... myghod Mike, you must spend so much time reading and
replying to all this listmail like you do. Not a criticism, just
an observation. Makes me wonder how you manage to get anything
else done :)
Cheers
Tony
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