jed-B0.99-17.135 available

[Rafael Laboissiere]

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* Paul Boekholt <p.boekholt at hetnet.nl> [2005-10-25 14:09]:

> > Incidently, I noticed slgdbm in debian testing.  How hard do you think
> > it would be to add some of the other slang modules such as slcurl,
> > slgtk, slhist, etc.  I realize that you do not want to be in a
> > position where you would have to support these.
> 
> I'm not a maintainer or contributor of any Debian packages (I had
> considered joining the Debian Jed Group, but don't have much time and I'm
> not that deeply into Debian).  Currently S-Lang is packaged by Alastair
> McKinstry, I guess he's the most likely module packager.  JED is packaged
> by Rafael Laboissiere, he also packaged slgdbm (slang-gdbm) in order
> to include gdbmrecent in the jed-extra package - the latest version has
> a persistent-blocal feature for remembering a file's ispell dictionary
> setting.

Actually, the jed, jed-extra, and slgdbm packages are maintained
collectively by the Jed Debian Group, not by me. 

> FWIW I think slcurl could be a candidate for packaging - the next
> version of jedscape will require it.  And it could be used with JED to
> open remote files through ftp.

Yes, it is a good idea to package the other slang modules for Debian.
Using slang-gdbm as a template, the other packages can be done quite
quickly, I guess.  Unfortunately, I do not have much free time for that
right now.  At any rate, could you please make a list of candidate
modules, in priority order?

-- 
Rafael