Hi Barak, On Sunday 21 September 2008 19:13, Barak A. Pearlmutter wrote: > > As said, feel free to reopen. > Will do. And you did :-) > Willing? Yes. Able? No, not realistically: too many other plates > spinning in the air. But I'm happy to bounce things around with > people. If there are people who are willing and able to do the work... that was actually part of the reason I closed it. Appearantly for years there was no one to tackle this. (And if there is no progress again within the next two years or so, I'll likely close this again.) > Exactly. There are a number of high-level approaches that could be > taken, and it is unclear which would be most sensible. (Library, like > papersize? Executable, like tempfile? Location network server and > protocol?) But at root, we should recognize that this is not a very > hard problem; merely a tedious one. Like many design decisions, it > would be good for a group to talk through some options in order to > come up with a minimal but extensible (eg, accept and/or broadcast > location via avahi) design appropriate to this particular problem. > That's what debian-devel is for, at its best. But no one did. Maybe it's worth having a BoF about this at next DebConf? good luck & have fun, Holger
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