experimental version of jed

G. Milde milde at users.sourceforge.net
Tue May 22 14:13:39 UTC 2007


On 22.05.07, Jörg Sommer wrote:
> Hi,

> what do you think about a new package jed-experimental where we put new
> features? I know this from icewm. Until a patch is accepted upstream or
> it's prooven as stable, it was in icewm-experimental.

> It should only be a playground for new features. What do you think?

IMO, an official debian package as playground is "mit Kanonen auf Spatzen
schiessen" (breaking a fly on the wheel).

For pure S-Lang experiments, changes and features, there is the "extra"
section in jed-extra. 

The installation routines in jed-extra make it easy to download and
install local or private S-Lang extensions - also as drop-in replacements
for standard ones.

Experimenting with the C source could either be done in "experimental"
(although this seems taken by the SVN version already) or in a branch
without uploading packages to the Debian package repositories (but
providing them on an alternative non-official place).


> John is very cautious in adding patches and do changes. Until he accepts
> a patch it might take time. If we can say ???Hey, 12 users use this patch
> and didn't report any problem???, he might feel better when applying a
> patch.

It is my experience, that 12 (or 100 users of just one OS (or one
distribution of one OS) will not make much of a difference, as John is
very keen to keep the multi-platform nature of Jed intact.

Guenter




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