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Re: Status on ITP ruby-launchy ?



Hi!

On Fri, Mar 07, 2014 at 02:23:08PM +0100, Dominique Dumont wrote:
> On Tuesday 25 February 2014 11:55:25 Cédric Boutillier wrote:
> > The last point to do was renaming /usr/bin/launchy to something else
> > (launchy-rb?) because there was already a binary with that name in the
> > archive. If I remember well, the rest was more than OK.

> I'm beginning to wonder if packaging a "cross-platform launcher" for Debian is 
> worth the trouble. "cross-platform for Debian" is a kind of an oxymore.

> Anyway, I was interested in runy-launchy because newer jekyll depends on it.

> But here's how jekyll uses launchy:

>  $ grep -Ri Launchy Rakefile lib script/ site/ test/ 
>  Rakefile:    require "launchy" 
>  Rakefile:      Launchy.open("http://localhost:4000";)
>  site/docs/history.md:- Update launchy dependency to `~> 2.3` ([#1608]
> ({{{site.repository }}/issues/1608))

> That's all: launchy is used only to launch a web browser.

> In the case of jekyll, I'd recommend to patch jekyll to use xdg-open directly 
> instead of using launchy.

> Did I miss something ?

Launchy is also used in the source of mdpress, a tool to make
presentations with markdown and some javascript effects. It is used to
launch a web browser. I patched it to use xdg-open, like what you are
proposing.

Cédric

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