Re: [Syllable-developer] Re: CVS Checkin (from the Syllable Announcement)

[Rick C. <ca...@cu...>]

> On Sunday 30 June 2002  7:05 am, you wrote:
> > Yay!!!  Cvs is up!!!  Sorry Vanders, my best friend(I was the best man
:) )
> > got married today and I have been away until now.
>
> Cool :)  I hope it was a great day :)
>
> How did your speech go? ;)

I had a great day and my speech went very well  :).

> > Tommorrow I will definately upload the new desktop :).  I still have to
> > learn how to upload some more with cvs, but I think I can figure it out
:).
>
> CVS sucks.  Seriously!  If you're not using *nix CVS though, I can't help
> much.  Try the CVS Redbook (Its linked from the "Resources" page on the
> website)

Well all of the desktop is uploaded :)(I think).  That Redbook is cool, but
Tortoise CVS for Windows is cooler :).  I hate using command line apps :).
And CVS is not that bad once you get the hang of it :).

> > Since I am the lead developer for the Desktop and basic applications, I
> > started a list of what should be included with Syllable.  Tell me if
this
> > anything is wrong  or if these are good ideas!!!  Also tell me if I am
> > stepping out of line.
>
> Stepping out of line?  A thousand times no!  We want open development
here;
> all suggestions are welcome! :)

Great!!!

> > o  All preferences should have their own application
> >         IE: To configure fonts have one application and to configure
colors
> > of everything                     another  application.  The should be
> > accessible from Launcher(Under Preferences)             or by a seperate
> > application(IE: Control Panel).
>
> Yes!  This should be fairly easy to do as well; most of the current code
is
> self contained.

I agree :).

> > o  Desktop with Launcher as a start menu should be included.into the
base
> > system
> >
> > o  AView should be included into the base system
> >
> > o Archiver should be included into the base system
> >
> > o  AEdit should be included into the base system.
> >
> > o Launcher and LBrowser should be included into the base system.
> >
> > o  CodeEdit and CodeView should be included into the base system.
> >
> > o  Whisper should be included into the base system.
> >
> > o Juggler(gpl version) should be included into the base system.
>
> The list looks good to me, apart from the inclusion of CodeView, CodeEdit
&
> Juggler.  Those are really development applications, and I personally feel
it
> would be better to keep all development packages away from the "Base"
distro.

I understand :).  Space is always an issue.  Especially without cdrom
support/

> For now , it may be best to limit ourselves with which packages we
include,
> at least until we get CD-ROM installs.  The current 0.3.9alpha tarballs do
> not include ABrowse, for example.  If we leave out ABrowse in 0.4.0 final,
> then we'll have to leave out Whisper as well.

I understand completely, but maybe we should make a seperate tarball for
those apps then???

> Once we have CD-ROM installs (Come on William! ;) ) then yes, Internet
tools
> should be installed by default, and all developer packages should be
availble
> if the user wants to install them :)

I get ya!!!  Since we want this to be a desktop operating system; then we
need it to act like a desktop operating system :).  That means if the
average user wants no developer tools then thats what they want  :).

> > o All Applications should be in /Applications/<program name> and should
> > have a symlink         in /Applications/<program name>/bin(for terminal
> > access)

> It should be possible to link from /Applications/foo/bin to /autolnk/bin
with
> pkgmanager just as you do with /usr/ packages.  I havn't tried this, but I
> see no reason why it wouldn't work.

I have and it does work.


> > Please feel free to scrutinize, yell, or make adjustments to my
suggestions
> >
> > :).  Heck, I love to hear other peoples opinions.

> Thats exactly the attitude we want! :)

Yep!!!

Rick Caudill
Development Website: http://students.cup.edu/cau0730