.py.in? _PYTHON?

2006-07-20 Thread David Lee
t;_SCRIPTS"). Is this our bug? Or might it be an automake bug in that, whereas a typical "_SCRIPTS" entry "sss" can be maintained from a corresponding "sss.in", alas "_PYTHON" cannot maintain a "ppp.py" from i

OS-sympathetic installation

2001-01-18 Thread David Lee
nd libtool", (good book, by the way!) but otherwise I haven't seen anything. Have I missed it? Is this idea totally somehow (how?) fundamentally flawed?) -- : David LeeI.T. Service : : Systems Programmer Computer Cen

Re: More an autopackage

2001-01-18 Thread David Lee
eed some help with the packaging details. > > 6) When I get going with Actual Code (TM) (within a couple of weeks), > I'll setup a project on sourceforge for this. No promises. But I could try to have a quick look at Solaris pkgadd/pkgrm issues once you have got started. --

Re: More an autopackage

2001-01-30 Thread David Lee
aps having "autopkg" separate from both automake and libtool may itself cause problems. Perhaps it might be better if this functionality were to be incoporated into automake itself, along with some hooks in libtool. -- : David Lee

Re: Autopkg

2001-02-13 Thread David Lee
f autopkg uses "epm" initially and/or ultimately.) But whatever, it would be useful to firm up some direction soon. Thanks for your work on this Geoffrey. Even if you feel unable to pursue autopkg in the near future, I'm grateful for your

Re: My patches

2001-03-22 Thread David Lee
he Internet, point your browser at http://www.perl.com/, the Perl Home Page. # One might be tempted to argue that anyone dabbling with automake will already be a keen perl "bleeding edge" junkie; but I would urge caution before leaping to that conclusion. Hope that helps you

Re: 85-lang-new-hash.patch

2001-03-26 Thread David Lee
lity such as Class::Struct (and, indeed, automake itself) code should be as generous as reasonably possible in accepting older/lesser versions of whatever environment (Perl, OS, ...) is out there. Irrespective of the major win for automake, it would make Class::Struct much more widely useabl

Re: 85-lang-new-hash.patch

2001-03-26 Thread David Lee
On 26 Mar 2001, Akim Demaille wrote: > >>>>> "David" == David Lee <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > David> Wouldn't it be cleaner to talk with the maintainers of > David> Class::Struct with a view to making Class::Struct itself able > Da

Re: Help: Automake's Struct.pm

2001-04-24 Thread David Lee
On 24 Apr 2001, Akim Demaille wrote: > >>>>> "David" == David Lee <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > David> Could you briefly summarise, please, what happened to that > David> potentially very clean approach? Thanks. > > I did answer to th

Re: Help: Automake's Struct.pm

2001-04-24 Thread David Lee
ing it was either technically poor or that the author is not happy/available/... Could you briefly summarise, please, what happened to that potentially very clean approach? Thanks. -- : David LeeI.T. Service : : Systems Programmer

automake 1.4 : --copy problem?

2001-06-25 Thread David Lee
ing (especially as work on the next version of automake is so well in hand). But information about it would be exceedingly useful, and any reasonable solutions would be a nice bonus. Thanks in advance. -- : David LeeI.T. Service : : Systems Programmer

Re: automake 1.4 : --copy problem?

2001-06-26 Thread David Lee
errors. Might you have some sort of statement in existence that we could beg, steal or borrow, to reassure developers on our project? Many thanks again. > On Monday 25 June 2001 6:07 pm, David Lee wrote: > > Background: we are trying to "autoconfiscate" the "linux-ha&qu

Re: Security vulnerability in automake

2002-06-10 Thread David Lee
ge-provider may well be different parties; 1. If there is a weakness, root or otherwise, reasonable attempts should be made to fix it, regardless of other considerations; 2. A non-root mindset should be encouraged. Indeed, I'd support a case for a default of "if root then aba