Re: Comments on policy modifications

1998-09-19 Thread Karl M. Hegbloom
Here's what I've been doing... It saves a lot of space, especially on the laptop. --- from /etc/apache/srm.conf -- # So I can gzip the html files in "/usr/doc" AddType text/x-html-gzip htmlgz AddHandler x-html-gzip htmlgz Action x-html-gzip /cgi-bin/zcat-html AddType text/x-plain-gzipped

Re: Comments on policy modifications

1998-09-16 Thread Manoj Srivastava
Hi, >>"Hamish" == Hamish Moffatt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Hamish> Consistency is to compress them -- we compress all other Hamish> documentation in /usr/doc except the copyright files. Not quite ;-). We definitely compress changelog.html. However, we still do not compress multi-file

Re: Comments on policy modifications

1998-09-16 Thread Hamish Moffatt
On Sun, Sep 13, 1998 at 09:30:41PM -0400, Justin Maurer wrote: > i would definitley prefer one or the other. i think non-compressed is the > way to go. consider this: slowe machines would crumble on unzipping larger > files, but newer machines would have plenty of space. i really think we > should

Re: Comments on policy modifications

1998-09-15 Thread Santiago Vila
On Tue, 15 Sep 1998, Marcus Brinkmann wrote: > On Mon, Sep 14, 1998 at 10:00:36PM +0200, Santiago Vila wrote: > > On Mon, 14 Sep 1998, Marcus Brinkmann wrote: > > > > > > So should we change i386-hurd to i386-gnu on the ftp archive? This would > > > also express the explicit wish of Gordon, IIRC.

Re: Comments on policy modifications

1998-09-15 Thread Marcus Brinkmann
On Mon, Sep 14, 1998 at 10:00:36PM +0200, Santiago Vila wrote: > On Mon, 14 Sep 1998, Marcus Brinkmann wrote: > > > > So should we change i386-hurd to i386-gnu on the ftp archive? This would > > also express the explicit wish of Gordon, IIRC. > > I don't think this is strictly necessary, it would

Re: Comments on policy modifications

1998-09-14 Thread Santiago Vila
On Mon, 14 Sep 1998, Marcus Brinkmann wrote: > On Mon, Sep 14, 1998 at 05:24:25PM +0200, Santiago Vila wrote: > > On Mon, 14 Sep 1998, Zed Pobre wrote: > > > > > In the mean time, then, if I understand correctly, the only arch > > > string that will allow proper compilation is "i386-gnu"? > >

Re: Comments on policy modifications

1998-09-14 Thread Manoj Srivastava
Hi, >>"Zed" == Zed Pobre <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> Actually, so can lynx, MOzilla, netscape, and w3. I take back >> my objection. I did not realize that all the html browsers too >> transparently handle gzipped files Zed> ? I have Netscape 4.06 installed on my box, and it refuses to

Re: Comments on policy modifications

1998-09-14 Thread Marcus Brinkmann
On Mon, Sep 14, 1998 at 05:24:25PM +0200, Santiago Vila wrote: > On Mon, 14 Sep 1998, Zed Pobre wrote: > > > In the mean time, then, if I understand correctly, the only arch > > string that will allow proper compilation is "i386-gnu"? > > Yes, because the gnumach kernel does only work under i

Re: Comments on policy modifications

1998-09-14 Thread Santiago Vila
On Mon, 14 Sep 1998, Zed Pobre wrote: > In the mean time, then, if I understand correctly, the only arch > string that will allow proper compilation is "i386-gnu"? Yes, because the gnumach kernel does only work under intel currently. -- "136b152ac3c4c1d999f0afddbbb9c284" (a truly random si

Re: Comments on policy modifications

1998-09-14 Thread Jean Pierre LeJacq
On Mon, 14 Sep 1998, Joseph Carter wrote: > On Sun, Sep 13, 1998 at 07:57:48PM -0700, Guy Maor wrote: > > > Compressed html changelogs: > > > > dwww deals transparently with compressed html files. Why can't > > html changelogs be compressed then? > > Because dwww requires essentially apache, th

Re: Comments on policy modifications

1998-09-14 Thread Santiago Vila
On Sun, 13 Sep 1998, Zed Pobre wrote: > -: > > There have been three suggestions on this so far. Add "hurd" to the > list of acceptable strings (currently the only acceptable one is > "linux", add "gnu" to the list of acceptable strings, and for each > current arch, add . > My prefer

Re: Comments on policy modifications

1998-09-14 Thread Guy Maor
Richard Braakman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Oh... then this is a new thing :) I maintain several packages that > install their html documentation uncompressed, because compressed > html was useless. I've got compressed html in the libtiff3g directory, and I just confirmed Manoj's findings - n

Re: Comments on policy modifications

1998-09-14 Thread Guy Maor
Joseph Carter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Because dwww requires essentially apache, though with effort it can work > with other things. It works with boa out of the box. boa is very light-weight. Guy

Re: Comments on policy modifications

1998-09-14 Thread Richard Braakman
Zed Pobre wrote: > "Files" section: > > I left the files section as it was in the original proposal under > the idea that a minimal set of changes was more likely to find > agreement. Originally, the thought was to separate the issue of > logfiles being a subsection of files rather than docum

Re: Comments on policy modifications

1998-09-14 Thread Richard Braakman
Manoj Srivastava wrote: > Hi, > >>"Guy" == Guy Maor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Guy> Zed Pobre <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >> Compressed html changelogs: > > Guy> dwww deals transparently with compressed html files. Why can't > Guy> html changelogs be compressed then? > > Actual

Re: Comments on policy modifications

1998-09-14 Thread Joseph Carter
On Sun, Sep 13, 1998 at 07:57:48PM -0700, Guy Maor wrote: > > Compressed html changelogs: > > dwww deals transparently with compressed html files. Why can't > html changelogs be compressed then? Because dwww requires essentially apache, though with effort it can work with other things. Either w

Re: Comments on policy modifications

1998-09-14 Thread Buddha Buck
> Proposal templates: > > As a sidenote, if anyone has an idea for templates for proposals, or > a format that would make proposals more readable or in some other > manner more aesthetic or easier to deal with than what I posted, I'd > also like to know about it. I would prefer if, instead of

Re: Comments on policy modifications

1998-09-14 Thread Manoj Srivastava
Hi, >>"Guy" == Guy Maor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Guy> Zed Pobre <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> Compressed html changelogs: Guy> dwww deals transparently with compressed html files. Why can't Guy> html changelogs be compressed then? Actually, so can lynx, MOzilla, netscape, and w3

Re: Comments on policy modifications

1998-09-14 Thread Ben Pfaff
Guy Maor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Zed Pobre <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > As a sidenote, if anyone has an idea for templates for proposals, or > a format that would make proposals more readable or in some other > manner more aesthetic or easier to deal with than what I posted,

Re: Comments on policy modifications

1998-09-14 Thread Guy Maor
Zed Pobre <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Compressed html changelogs: dwww deals transparently with compressed html files. Why can't html changelogs be compressed then? > As a sidenote, if anyone has an idea for templates for proposals, or > a format that would make proposals more readable or

Re: Comments on policy modifications

1998-09-14 Thread Justin Maurer
> Compressed html changelogs: > > If I understand correctly, Manoj's argument is basically that > except for extreme circumstances, the lack of convenience in dealing > with compressed html changelogs outweighs the size benefits. On that > matter I don't really have a firm conviction one way