Re: Serious performance bug in Perl

1998-06-21 Thread Daniel Martin at cush
"Darren/Torin/Who Ever..." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > > Daniel Martin, in an immanent manifestation of deity, wrote: > >My... it's been a while since I was investigating perl internals > >(writing C code that was callable from perl) - at least two years, >

Re: Serious performance bug in Perl

1998-06-19 Thread Daniel Martin at cush
Ben Gertzfield <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >>>>> "Daniel" == Daniel Martin at cush <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Daniel> It's a perl thing. I can almost guarantee it. The > Daniel> problem is perl's shadow password

Re: Serious performance bug in Perl

1998-06-19 Thread Daniel Martin at cush
Chris Fearnley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Thu, Jun 18, 1998 at 12:38:45PM -0500, Richard Kaszeta wrote: > > Christopher J. Fearnley writes ("Re: Serious performance bug in Perl"): > > >to call it (instead of the default perl - 5.004.04-6). Performance > > >improved several hundred-fold. So

Re: Packages marked as Obsolete

1998-05-05 Thread Daniel Martin at cush
Matthias Klose <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > *** x11 Opt tkdesk 1.0b4-2.1 > > this package could use blt8.0-unoff Actually, it can't, but that's because other bits of tkdesk are incompatible with tcl/tk 8.0. As the upstream source of tkdesk comes with its own blt, that's gettin

Re: source packages and censorship

1998-05-01 Thread Daniel Martin at cush
Raul Miller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Daniel Martin at cush <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > What about a pine-installer package? > > > > This would be similar to the netscape3 and netscape4 packages of old - > > the user would be asked in the preins

Re: source packages and censorship

1998-05-01 Thread Daniel Martin at cush
I think someone already proposed this idea, and it was immediately ignored, so I'm going to suggest it again: What about a pine-installer package? This would be similar to the netscape3 and netscape4 packages of old - the user would be asked in the preinst to put the pine .orig.tar.gz, the .diff.

Re: bzip2 for source packages?

1998-04-18 Thread Daniel Martin at cush
James Troup <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Michael Alan Dorman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > Might I suggest that using it for source packaging would be > > appropriate, though? > I seem to remember that there was some legal problem with using bzip2 in the US - software patent, that sort of t

Re: New fvwm95 into unstable

1998-04-15 Thread Daniel Martin at cush
Manoj Srivastava <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Personally, I am inclined to think that if your release fixed > bugs, and introduced not too many new features, it should go > into frozen. And now it's just done that - 2.0.43b-4 is in incoming heading for frozen, but you probably saw that

Re: New fvwm95 into unstable

1998-04-13 Thread Daniel Martin at cush
Manoj Srivastava <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Hi, > >>"Daniel" == Daniel Martin at cush <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Daniel> I'd also recommend that people upgrading directly from bo > Daniel> upgrade to this package instead of the one in

What exactly belongs in frozen?

1998-04-10 Thread Daniel Martin at cush
I had originally posted this to debian-private, but in the interest of getting more feedback (and timely feedback, since if this is going into frozen it needs to go *soon*) I'm re-posting it here. (It probably belongs here anyway, as it's not really a closed maintainers-only issue, but more of a