mmm and ocamltk80 (Re: Debian sponsor)
Hi,
From: Thomas Schoepf <schoepf@debian.org>
Subject: Debian sponsor
Date: Wed, 6 Oct 1999 13:29:14 +0200
schoepf> on http://www.internatif.org/bortzmeyer/debian/sponsor/ I saw that you're
schoepf> looking for a sponsor and maybe I can help you.
Thanks! Sorry for late reply.
schoepf> You wrote that the maintainer of mmm and ocamltk, Christophe Le Bars, lost
schoepf> interest in them. Did he write you an email?
We've talked about it in -qa@org. Would you check ML archive?
(It was in September, I think)
Torsten Landschoff <torsten@pclab.ifg.uni-kiel.de> also said he was willing to
maintain it, but we met some difficulties and now he's gone for vacation...
1) License problem
I thought the INRIA license is compliant with DFSG, but some people in -legal@org
said the license is not clear enough to ensure the creation of binaries from
modified source. I've sent an e-mail to INRIA to ask them about it, but don't get
any reply yet...
Could you possibly ask them? I can't read or write in French, so I don't understand
what they say at www.inria.fr(English page was not available at that time). the
license seems to be translated from French, so the meaning might be different
from the original one.
2) Tcl/Tk problem
I used Japanized Tcl/Tk to build those packages, so eventually they depend on
tcl8.0-ja/tk8.0-ja. Since it's impossible to make them depend on tcl/tk8.0-ja AND
tcl/tk8.0, the only way we can do now is those damn forking...I mean, we'll have to
provide mmm, mmm-ja, ocamltk80 and ocamltk80-ja for Japanese support.
Well, I don't think it's good idea, but that's the way it is...
I've heard Tcl/Tk 8.2 tried but failed to support Japanese(and other multibyte
characters). Maybe we should talk with Tcl/Tk(and Tcl-ja/Tk-ja) maintainers.
I'm trying to solve these situations, but it's kinda tough for me.
Any ideas?
IMHO MMM is still one of the finest Web browsers, so I'm very glad if you or
Torsten take it. I'm ready to help you.
Cheers,
MH
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Masayuki Hatta
The University of Tokyo
mhatta@debian.or.jp / mhatta@gnu.org
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