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

[Kristian V. D. V. <va...@bl...>]

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? ;)

> 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)

> 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! :)

> 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.

> 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.

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.

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 :)

> 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.

> Please feel free to scrutinize, yell, or make adjustments to my suggestions
>
> :).  Heck, I love to hear other peoples opinions.
>
> Rick Caudill
> Development Website: http://students.cup.edu/cau0730

Thats exactly the attitude we want! :)

-- 
Vanders
http://www.shagged.org/~vanders/