Re: [rox-users] Fwd: [Zero-install-devel] Utility/Clock not working and a few other things

[Mark W. <mar...@nt...>]

Thomas Leonard wrote:
> 2009/9/6 Mark Williams <mar...@nt...>:
> [...]
>> Hi Tom
>>
>> You have Appearance in both lists.
>>
>> And aren't YOU the author and maintainer of ROX-Session? :-P
> 
> I'm the author of nearly all of them, which is probably the problem,
> since I don't have much time.
> 
>> I use pretty much every app on the unmaintained list and, apart from
>> some that are funky with zero-install, they all work fine. The ones that
>>  have a problem win 0install I just use the tar version of.
> 
> That's another thing to add to the list:
> 
> - Whether any releases have been made without updating the Zero Install feed.
> 
> (I'm assuming that by "funky" you mean "out of date". If not, please
> give details.)
> 
> 
I mean that a couple (pager and tasklist) want to autoconfig on first 
run but seem unable to.

This is what I get when I try to run tasklist, forex

Compiling 
/home/mark/.cache/0install.net/implementations/sha1=e0a089bd987d518a71609a15ba4f55ed2866a0b3... 
please wait...
./configure: 97: cannot create conf5198.sh: Permission denied
./configure: 97: cannot create conf5198.sh: Permission denied
chmod: cannot access `conf5198.sh': No such file or directory
./configure: line 88: conf5198.sh: Permission denied
./configure: line 89: conf5198.sh: Permission denied
chmod: cannot access `conf5198.sh': No such file or directory
./configure: line 201: conf5198.file: Permission denied
./configure: line 959: config.log: Permission denied
Compile failed
Press Return...

Same goes for Pager.

Apart from that none of the apps seem particularly buggy or lacking in 
vital features. So as long as the 0install feeds are kept up to date I'm 
happy :-)