[Pkg-gauche-devel] Fwd: Plan to release gauche 0.9 deb.

[YAEGASHI Takeshi]

Hi again,

It's very creepy that there seems already two mails in the pipermail
archive, although I've posted only ONE mail to the list.

http://lists.alioth.debian.org/pipermail/pkg-gauche-devel/2010-January/000000.html
http://lists.alioth.debian.org/pipermail/pkg-gauche-devel/2010-January/000001.html

The archiver must have misunderstood quoting part of the mail as
another one, which contains a line starting with "From ".  You'd
better be careful not to make such a post.

I repost the mail for your convenience.

---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: YAEGASHI Takeshi <yaegashi at debian.org>
Date: 2010/1/23
Subject: Plan to release gauche 0.9 deb.
To: karme at berlios.de
Cc: NIIBE Yutaka <gniibe at fsij.org>, Hatta Shuzo <hattas at debian.org>


Jens (and other package maintainers),

I've just given a try to your gauche 0.9.0 package from
http://karme.de/debian/.  I really appreciate your work.

>From README.Debian in your package:

> - rpath patch i do not understand yet (from the official debian package)

It's necessary to avoid a lintian error binary-or-shlib-defines-rpath.

> - gauche package itself should not depend on gdbm?
>   or maybe just drop the extra gauche-gdbm package and include that
>   module in gauche itself?

I've felt the gauche package needs restructuring on its binary debs
following other modern scripting language packagings (like ruby).  One
possible plan is:

 * gauche for /usr/bin/gosh.
 * libgauche0 for libgauche.so.0 and other standard libraries.
 * gauche-dev for development files.
 * gauche-doc for texinfo and pdf files.

> - pdf output needs some work
> - maybe use the multi-file html version
>   (emacs-w3m is to slow ;-)
> - menu entry / desktop file
> - emacs-mode?
> - japanese pdf output

Those problems need to be addressed as ever.  And we need to
communicate other developers who maintain packages dependent on
gauche.

We need a common place and a mailing list to discuss more.  Could you
join pkg-gauche.alioth.debian.org if I could prepare it?

Regards,
--
YAEGASHI Takeshi <yaegashi at debian.org>



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YAEGASHI Takeshi <yaegashi at debian.org>