Re: AS 1.5beta4

Guylhem Aznar (guylhem@danmark.barberouge.linux.lmm.com)
Sun, 13 Sep 1998 13:25:32 +0200 

> >From Guylhem's buglist:
> 
> > o define XLOCALE
> 
> I'm not sure how to do this.  We are currently using setlocale() to set 
> the locale requested during configure.  Should we be checking for an 
> environment variable at runtime or something?

Mako Kato explained me what AS should do, I'll try to find back his mail.
 
> > g 32. Debug StayPut / StayOnBack
> 
> I might be interested in doing this one if you don't get around to it 
> first.  

I couldn't fix it. I'd be interesting for TaskList.

> >From Michal's buglist:
> 
> > ? o the configure script should be made non-interactive (Gafton asked to do
> >     it as well) (i heard u did 99% of it already, ethan).
> 
> Patch 15 does this, hopefully.  There were lots of changes, and it's hard 
> to test them all, so please be as hard on this patch as you can!

Will do
 
> > ? o the APPS package could be fixed a bit - i dont know whta problems are
> >     there but it might be a good idea to improve their install/possible
> >     problems.
> 
> Nor do I.  I've been ignoring APPS, trying to get bugs out of the kernel.  
> Until the kernel is ready for 1.5, I'm not going to spend any significant 
> amount of time on APPS (unless there is a dire need to do so).

Maybe should we put them back in 1.5 beta5 ?

> The kernel has improved a great deal since 1.5beta3, and it installs 
> cleanly on more systems.  I think we should release a beta4 now.  I 
> suggest we run the "make indent" just before release - this will give all 
> of the AS code a consistent style.

Ok
 
> Finally, Re: Cristian Gafton's startmenu change:
> 
> <soapbox>
> I'm not sure I like the idea of forcing menu items on users.  It seems to 
> me that this goes against the philosophy of AS, which has been to provide 
> (like X itself) a high degree of flexibility without enforcing any 
> particular policy.  I think that the standard AS that we release should 
> not have a "fixed" menu portion.  I do not object, however, to providing 
> the option, since Red Hat seems to need it so desperately.
> </soapbox>

I'd suggest to add it as a compile time option, set by default.
We could put Modules/ Quit/ Decorations (...) there.

> ----
> Ethan Fischer
> allanon@crystaltokyo.com
> http://members.xoom.com/allanon1

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