Re: Time to rewrite dpkg

1999-05-21 Thread rjk
onths to get into > yet another non-maintainer release. While I couldn't get the published source to build, IWJ's source tree builds for me. Perhaps you should encourage him to make it more widely available? ttfn/rjk

Re: Install-time byte-compiling: Why bother?

1999-05-12 Thread rjk
nd Netscape both render the same web page in less than a second! The point is well made, though. ttfn/rjk

Re: Install-time byte-compiling: Why bother?

1999-05-09 Thread rjk
many cases if you didn't time it, you wouldn't even notice. I know what I think is better for the novice! ttfn/rjk

Re: suggestions for improvement

1999-05-09 Thread rjk
orts against xftpd and xsysinfo, which are the two examples of this problem I encountered. ttfn/rjk

Install-time byte-compiling: Why bother?

1999-05-09 Thread rjk
0 on lyonesse (which is one reasons why I only used Xemacs20 above). I suggest, therefore, that the install-time byte-compilation of elisp files be either eliminated completely, or turned into an option, with the default set to "off". ttfn/rjk

Re: suggestions for improvement

1999-05-09 Thread rjk
h some software, &c). Some of these are probably less useful to think about than others. However I'm sure there's lots of other things that vary in a fairly predictable fashion from place to place. ttfn/rjk

Re: /usr/lib/apt/methods/http - close(-1)

1999-01-30 Thread rjk
Russell Coker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > What is a close(-1) supposed to do? The http program does one and > I'm curious as to why... It usually means someone isn't checking the return value from open/socket/etc... -- http://www.greenend.org.uk/rjk/