On Fri, Dec 31, 1999 at 06:36:43PM -0500, Paul M. Foster wrote: <snipped much of earlier conversation for sake of bandwidth...> > Here's another gripe about dselect. When I install, dselect asks me for > the root directory on the CD-ROM. How the hell do I know? The nice part about it (without having looked at the code, only the user interface) is that it appears that the different "methods" of getting debian packages in dselect are very modular. If someone wants to either fix the existing code for cd-rom installation or write something completely new, it would appear that it can be put in the menu fairly easily. I think what stops most developers from making changes to the cd-rom stuff is that once the system has been loaded in the beginning, which is the ONLY time I personally use the cd-rom stuff, most people switch to using apt for getting their updates/upgrades. The cd-rom software's just not used enough to warrant enough brain damage to want to fix it. Apt, on the other hand, appears to be highly maintained and changed to add/update features regularly, and the newer console-apt (capt) and other apt-based tools like apt-get and it's various flavors seem to be catching more folks eyes (and hearts) these days. On a side note: After reading a whole lot about CVS over the past few days, I'd love to see more developers and development teams in all sorts of projects using it -- It'd make the casual "hack" easier to perform to continually add functionality and features to software that otherwise just falls beneath the radar scope of most developers. The ability to grab a quick snapshot of the current development stuff on older pieces of software that are not always under much development effort would be nice, but it requires that someone take the time to do the setup and maintenance of the archive and a place to put it that's got decent bandwidth to the Net. I'm still learning about how to set up CVS properly for Open Source projects, but someday down the road I hope to have all my small projects in CVS and would probably be willing to help out other folks get their stuff in it too. Very very useful tool, as it encourages just the kind of development that Open Source/free software requires to thrive. The Coriolis OpenPress book, "Open Source Development with CVS" is very good and most of it is GPL. The chapters on the politics and reasoning behind how to set up successful Open Source projects is not free, however. Even so, the purchase of the book is well worth the asking price, IMHO. www.coriolis.com I believe. I suppose this type of discussion should move to -devel, so further replies will be sent there, if any... :) -- Nate Duehr <nate@natetech.com> GPG Key fingerprint = DCAF 2B9D CC9B 96FA 7A6D AAF4 2D61 77C5 7ECE C1D2 Public Key available upon request, or at wwwkeys.pgp.net and others.
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