Re: [dev] Opinions on GNU stow

2017-08-29 Thread Anselm R Garbe
Hi there, On 30 August 2017 at 01:39, fao_ wrote: > Rather, I am asking your opinions on the general concept and > how it has been implemented. Specifically, the idea of installing > under a 'package' directory, and symlinking from there to the > proper install location. But anything about the ge

[dev] Opinions on GNU stow

2017-08-29 Thread fao_
Basically what the title asks: what is suckless' general opinion of GNU Stow. To clarify: I am not asking about the language or tools that make up GNU stow (It is obviously not Suckless). Rather, I am asking your opinions on the general concept and how it has been implemented. Specifically, the i

Re: [dev] less(1) replacement?

2017-08-29 Thread Alex Pilon
On Tue, Aug 29, 2017 at 10:10:32AM +, sylvain.bertr...@gmail.com wrote: > C syntax is already *WAY* too rich. Many of the linux kernel coding > guidelines are actually a sort of an emphase of this point. […] to be > polite some things are "not recommended": […] I go a bit farther: no > enum eit

Re: [dev] less(1) replacement?

2017-08-29 Thread Anselm R Garbe
On 29 August 2017 at 12:10, wrote: > following conditions: In no way a core functionality of the user level > application should be implemented in the "interpreted" language; In no way the > SDK of the user application must force the availability of the "interpreted" > language to be compiled or

Re: [dev] less(1) replacement?

2017-08-29 Thread sylvain . bertrand
On Mon, Aug 28, 2017 at 11:31:38PM +0200, Stéphane Aulery wrote: > As I mentioned in my first post, I will not want to write a piece of lower > level or intermediate software with a scripting language, but one can still > write a user software whose only dependency is the interpreter. The > princip

Re: [dev] announcing edit-pipe

2017-08-29 Thread Nick
Quoth Greg Reagle: > > * Quote "$edit" in case the editor has a space in its name. > > I deliberately do not quote $edit so that I can set EDITOR to nano -w. > Is that non-standard/wacky? Is there a convention for whether the the > value of EDITOR environment variable should be able to have opt