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Re: [Komport-devel] A Few Quick Things

[Mike S. <mi...@sh...>]

Building on RedHat should be fine. I've been building on Mandrake 9.1 ships 
with Qt 3.1.1 and KDE 3.1.0. I've tried to be keep the code pretty generic, 
so hopefully it will build on any of the Qt/KDE 3.x versions, so yes, Qt/KDE 
3.x should be the only dependencies.

Steven, I'll set you up an account on sharkey.servebeer.com so you'll have 
access to a few other distros. I'll send you the details in an off-list 
reply.

Here's a breakdown of what platforms I have and ones that I intend to bring 
on-line.....

Mandrake:
I have a two boxes running Mandrake 9.1 currently. First box is my old 
workstation, a dual processor P233, second box is my new workstation, a dual 
processor AMD Athlon 1.9Ghz. I just finished downloading the Mandrake 9.2 
ISOs so I will upgrade one of the Mandrake boxes shortly so we'll have access 
to both 9.1 and 9.2.

SuSe:
I would like to get a SuSe box up and running at some point. I almost have 
another (laptop) box up and running that I could install SuSe on. It's an 
older british laptop (P233) 64MB ram, and NO CD-ROM, so I have to do a 
network install, only problem is the floppy drive is flakey and I can't get 
it to load the entire boot disk even after disassembling the floppy and 
cleaning and dabbing lithium grease on the lead screws, etc....<sigh>....all 
it needs to do is load the installer, just once! Anyway, patiently working on 
that.

Debian:
I have a 68k Macintosh that I've been running Debian Linux on for a few years. 
It is currently off-line while I physically relocate it. I will also be doing 
a few upgrades on it. The 68k Mac should be back online soon. Even though it 
is a 68k architecture, the build process should be the same as on Intel 
architecture.

We'll probably want to get those spec files and any build scripts into CVS 
once we start getting CVS in order. Mark's on the case with that.

I guess that's all for now.

--Mike

On Wednesday 19 November 2003 10:21 am, skr...@f2... wrote:
> OK, I started to write the Spec file for an RPM of v0.5.3 on my RedHat
> box...
>
> I quickly broswed through the source and so far the only requirments that
> need to be installed on the Machine are the KDE Libs & QT. Is this correct
> or is there something I am overlooking?
>
> Also, what versions of the KDE Libs & QT are you using?
>
> Unfortunally, at work we use RedHat, so at home I use RedHat, and I don't
> really have access to any other distro's, so the RPMs I pack will only be
> tested on RedHat. Is there anyone using SuSe or Mandrake and whatnot who
> would be able to test them out to make sure they work right?
>
> I think thats about all for now
>
> SK
>
>
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[Komport-devel] A Few Quick Things

[<skr...@f2...>]

OK, I started to write the Spec file for an RPM of v0.5.3 on my RedHat box...

I quickly broswed through the source and so far the only requirments that
need to be installed on the Machine are the KDE Libs & QT. Is this correct
or is there something I am overlooking?

Also, what versions of the KDE Libs & QT are you using?

Unfortunally, at work we use RedHat, so at home I use RedHat, and I don't
really have access to any other distro's, so the RPMs I pack will only be
tested on RedHat. Is there anyone using SuSe or Mandrake and whatnot who
would be able to test them out to make sure they work right?

I think thats about all for now

SK

[Komport-devel] bounced email

[Mike S. <mi...@sh...>]

Hello All,

My inbound email (mi...@sh...) was broken this morning, it 
was bouncing any email sent to me. This is just to let anyone know in case 
you got a bounced mail, It's cleared up now.

--Mike

[Komport-devel] Introductions + release plan

[Mike S. <mi...@sh...>]

Good Day Everyone,

I guess I should intruduce everyone involved with the project first of all, 
and state their primary roles.......

Robert Bachmann - Web Designer
Mark Birch - CVS/release admin
Steven Kreuzer - Packager Builder
Mike Sharkey - programmer

I think all those listed should also have moderator and tracker privilages. 
This is my first experience with sourceforge so please let me know if A) I've 
done something really dumb, or B) I need to let you have access to something 
that you currently don't have privilages for.

Also, I have a few different systems available for building, packaging, 
testing web sites, basically they are available for anything related to 
Komport. They are located at: http://sharkey.servebeer.com just let me know 
if you'd like a secure shell account there. 

Okay, so let me bring everyone up to speed on where I am with the coding... 

I'm real busy lately with a release at my day job but I have managed to do a 
little bit of work on Komport over the last week or so. I've managed to add 
the ability to extend text selection into the history buffer. Still a few 
minor bugs with that but it's mostly working.

While I'm on the subject of text selection, what do people feel about the way 
that komport currently does text selection, it selects text in a rectangle 
rather that contiguous text selection as per, say xterm. I think there are 
times when selecting a rectangular area are desirable, and there are also 
times when contiguous text selection is desirable. What I'm getting at is I 
would like to do both but I'm wondering about the user interface for 
switching modes. I was thinking of using a meta key (shift/alt/ctl) to switch 
modes during selection. While I think that would be good from an operational 
standpoint, I don't feel it's very intuitive. Perhaps using meta key 
selection mode toggle in conjunction with a settings form item to select the 
default mode? My thinking is that having a visible item on the settings form 
will draw attention to this functionality. Any thoughts?

In any case, for next release, I would like to finish up the recent work on 
text selection and then address the 6 or so outstanding bugs. I think that 
would address the most annoying bugs and should make a pretty nice release. 
Anyone else have any input on functions/bugs for next release?

Also, it would be really nice to get source and binary RPMs included in next 
release. Most of the trouble people have been having with the tar.gz releases 
is the build process, headers not installed and that sort of thing. 

Meanwhile Mark will be getting us up and running with sourceforge CVS at some 
point which should really help out with the releases. 

Well, that's all I can think of for now. 

Thank you all for participating!

Yours Truely,

Mike Sharkey