Re: [cdesktopenv-devel] You guys are driving me nuts with ideas

2018-06-23 Thread Chase via cdesktopenv-devel
Sounds like a fun pet project, glad to see people being creative with CDE Thank you for your time, -Chase ‐‐‐ Original Message ‐‐‐ On June 23, 2018 9:58 PM, Pete Lancashire wrote: > I'm sitting here with one of my beaglebone black boards a little high > performance single-board compute

[cdesktopenv-devel] You guys are driving me nuts with ideas

2018-06-23 Thread Pete Lancashire
I'm sitting here with one of my beaglebone black boards a little high performance single-board computer this current design uses a 9 in LCD panel. It would make a perfect little CDE system -- Check out the vibrant tech com

[cdesktopenv-devel] [PATCH] Remove ultrix support

2018-06-23 Thread Chase via cdesktopenv-devel
Third times the charm! Posting some last minute patches before the release comes. Thank you for your time, -ChaseFrom 9733966cadd694507131c864baa7c19afd4d6f4e Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: chase Date: Sat, 23 Jun 2018 21:48:44 -0500 Subject: [PATCH] Remove ultrix support --- cde/config/cf/Ima

Re: [cdesktopenv-devel] The sorry state of imake

2018-06-23 Thread Jon Trulson
On 06/23/2018 03:45 PM, Chase wrote: Have you emailed that guy back since then? He may've put something together but forgot about it. I couldn't remember his name, but I believe he responded in this very thread (Doug Royer?). If imake could get any deader, I was just emailed saying upstre

Re: [cdesktopenv-devel] Proposing an official release in two weeks

2018-06-23 Thread Jon Trulson
On 06/23/2018 03:47 PM, Chase via cdesktopenv-devel wrote: My vote is for a new release, however I have my reservations on waiting another 1-2 years for the next release. I would like to get the debian package out as soon as reasonably possible, so could we switch to a release schedule of rough

Re: [cdesktopenv-devel] Proposing an official release in two weeks

2018-06-23 Thread Matthew R. Trower
Ah, yes, I am quite familiar with Debian's packaging and release policies from a user's perspective.  ‎ I meant, do you need to package a stable release of the software in question? Example: Our stable release is

Re: [cdesktopenv-devel] Proposing an official release in two weeks

2018-06-23 Thread Chase via cdesktopenv-devel
Not initially, from the debian wikipedia page: Initially, an accepted package is only available in the unstable branch.[111](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Debian#cite_note-distributions-111) For a package to become a candidate for the next release, it must migrate to the Testing branch by meeti

Re: [cdesktopenv-devel] Proposing an official release in two weeks

2018-06-23 Thread Matthew R. Trower
I ‎would think we should cut new releases when we are ready to do so, rather than after an arbitrary amount of time. Some projects (ex. Debian, Firefox, much commercial software) that have very frequent commits be

Re: [cdesktopenv-devel] Proposing an official release in two weeks

2018-06-23 Thread Chase via cdesktopenv-devel
My vote is for a new release, however I have my reservations on waiting another 1-2 years for the next release. I would like to get the debian package out as soon as reasonably possible, so could we switch to a release schedule of roughly 6 months from now on? That way people don't think we are

Re: [cdesktopenv-devel] The sorry state of imake

2018-06-23 Thread Chase via cdesktopenv-devel
Have you emailed that guy back since then? He may've put something together but forgot about it. If imake could get any deader, I was just emailed saying upstream wouldn't even merge our changes due to our imake being lgplv2+ licensed, so my vote is officially migrating to autotools after this