Re: gdselect alpha 3
On Fri, Oct 16, 1998 at 09:48:18AM -0400, Peter S Galbraith wrote:
> Manoj Srivastava wrote:
>
> > Hi,
> > >>"Michael" == Michael Stone <mstone@taipei.itri.loyola.edu> writes:
> >
> > Michael> Quoting Jason Gunthorpe (jgg@gpu.srv.ualberta.ca):
> > >> I think this idea of 'lets quickly do something fast' is ill concieved an
> > d
> > >> is ultimately going to hurt our image. I've looked at the latest version,
> > >> it looks rather pretty, it's slightly more functional than dselect but
> > >> that's about it.. It doesn't support any of the more sophisticated things
> > >> that people are clamoring for, and it requires X, GTK and a wack of ram.
> >
> > Michael> But it answers the people who think dselect is ugly and
> > Michael> unintuitive and want something that runs under X.
> >
> > A quick and dirty answers is not really a good thing, don't
> > you think?
> >
> > Competition is fine, let it get time to mature. The idea is
> > simple: no new code after freeze. let this new system vie with apt at
> > the next release.
> >
> > Since when have we considered scrapping quality just because
> > people want something that ``looks pretty''?
> >
> > manoj
>
> If it's rather pretty and slightly more functional than dselect but that's
> about it... then include it! Please!
>
> What I need from dselect is more screen space, more pixels, a less crampled
> selection environment. It takes forver to navigate through dselect because
> of the sheer number of packages. It seems that gdselect would help a lot
> in this respect (I use 1600x1200 on X).
So... shall I "release" it using my pkg code (takes lots of memory,
blah, blah, blah, but it works, and its written), or apt's class
system?
I now think its too silly to try to include it in the slink freeze; I
will upload it to "unstable" after the freeze has happenned.
However, making a note of it on the Debian web pages might not be such
a bad idea.
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