Re: RFC: usb-modeswitch 1.2.0 release embedding jimtcl

2012-08-28 Thread Didier 'OdyX' Raboud
Le lundi, 27 août 2012 19.21:22, Andrew Shadura a écrit : > Hello, > > (As a Tcler I have to comment on this.) > On Tue, 18 Oct 2011 13:36:43 +0200 Didier Raboud wrote: (Do you really have to comment on a 10-months old dead thread?) > > 1) "Forget about jimtcl, rely on existing tcl interpreter

Re: RFC: usb-modeswitch 1.2.0 release embedding jimtcl

2012-08-27 Thread Steve Langasek
On Mon, Aug 27, 2012 at 07:21:22PM +0200, Andrew Shadura wrote: > > 3) "Embed jimtcl using the internal copy" > > This means taking the upstream tarball as is. > > Pros: small standalone -dispatcher binary. > > Cons: code duplication, potential security issues with > > out-of-date jimt

Re: RFC: usb-modeswitch 1.2.0 release embedding jimtcl

2012-08-27 Thread Andrew Shadura
Hello, On Tue, 18 Oct 2011 10:59:36 -0400 Mathieu Trudel-Lapierre wrote: > It also doesn't solve a second case we're trying to cover: the fact > that usb-modeswitch would be the only package in the boot path on > *Ubuntu* that would rely on Tcl. That's another reason why a compiled > language wa

Re: RFC: usb-modeswitch 1.2.0 release embedding jimtcl

2012-08-27 Thread Andrew Shadura
Hello, (As a Tcler I have to comment on this.) On Tue, 18 Oct 2011 13:36:43 +0200 Didier Raboud wrote: > 1) "Forget about jimtcl, rely on existing tcl interpreters" > This is mostly "repacking to avoid the embedded jimtcl copy", "no > packaging of it, go on as is done currently; by rel

Re: RFC: usb-modeswitch 1.2.0 release embedding jimtcl

2011-10-20 Thread Yves-Alexis Perez
On jeu., 2011-10-20 at 18:58 +1100, Russell Coker wrote: > On Thu, 20 Oct 2011, Timo Jyrinki wrote: > > Actually, I already know a lot of people whose only desktop machine > > network connection is a 3G dongle, since unlimited data with it is > > about half the price of ADSL connection. > > My pa

Re: RFC: usb-modeswitch 1.2.0 release embedding jimtcl

2011-10-20 Thread Russell Coker
On Thu, 20 Oct 2011, Timo Jyrinki wrote: > Actually, I already know a lot of people whose only desktop machine > network connection is a 3G dongle, since unlimited data with it is > about half the price of ADSL connection. My parents have been using USB 3G net access on their Desktop system for a

Re: RFC: usb-modeswitch 1.2.0 release embedding jimtcl

2011-10-20 Thread Timo Jyrinki
2011/10/18 Yves-Alexis Perez : > Not sure it'd help in this case but imho this is the case only on > laptops. People installing desktop usually don't need a 3G modem (and if > they do, they can manually install it). I'm not even sure > network-manager is needed on the desktop install, but eh. Actu

Re: RFC: usb-modeswitch 1.2.0 release embedding jimtcl

2011-10-19 Thread Philipp Matthias Hahn
Hello, On Wed, Oct 19, 2011 at 01:48:17PM +0100, Ben Hutchings wrote: > Virtual machine networking works just fine for me with virt-manager and > network-manager. As far as I know not (fully) for the bridged setup [0]: NM recognized the bridge, but since it doesn't have a "link status" [1], VPNs

Re: RFC: usb-modeswitch 1.2.0 release embedding jimtcl

2011-10-19 Thread Ben Hutchings
On Wed, 2011-10-19 at 11:22 +0200, Adam Borowski wrote: > On Tue, Oct 18, 2011 at 06:46:26PM +0200, Roland Mas wrote: > > Yves-Alexis Perez, 2011-10-18 18:35:04 +0200 : > > > I'm not even sure network-manager is needed on the desktop install, > > > but eh. > > > > $ LANG=C aptitude why network-man

Re: RFC: usb-modeswitch 1.2.0 release embedding jimtcl

2011-10-19 Thread Didier Raboud
Hi all again, first of all, thanks for the healthy discussion. Now, given the feedback, I plan to go with the brand new option 6 which is an option 2, "done right" (eh, IMHO). 6) "Allow interpretation using separate libjim, from jimtcl" This means packaging jimtcl and allow the usb-modeswi

Re: RFC: usb-modeswitch 1.2.0 release embedding jimtcl

2011-10-19 Thread Adam Borowski
On Tue, Oct 18, 2011 at 06:46:26PM +0200, Roland Mas wrote: > Yves-Alexis Perez, 2011-10-18 18:35:04 +0200 : > > I'm not even sure network-manager is needed on the desktop install, > > but eh. > > $ LANG=C aptitude why network-manager > i gnome-coreDepends network-manager-gnome (>= 0

Re: RFC: usb-modeswitch 1.2.0 release embedding jimtcl

2011-10-19 Thread Martin Wuertele
* Roland Mas [2011-10-18 18:46]: > > I'm not even sure network-manager is needed on the desktop install, > > but eh. > > $ LANG=C aptitude why network-manager > i gnome-coreDepends network-manager-gnome (>= 0.8.999) > i A network-manager-gnome Depends network-manager (>= 0.9)

Re: RFC: usb-modeswitch 1.2.0 release embedding jimtcl

2011-10-18 Thread Michael Biebl
Am 18.10.2011 21:16, schrieb Tollef Fog Heen: > ]] Didier Raboud > | > | usb-modeswitch being mostly useful for 3G USB dongles, I don't understand > | where you want the s/Recommends/Suggests/. > > modemmanager shouldn't recommend usb-modeswitch, but suggest it. > The problem then is, that u

Re: RFC: usb-modeswitch 1.2.0 release embedding jimtcl

2011-10-18 Thread Tollef Fog Heen
]] Didier Raboud | Tollef Fog Heen wrote: | | > ]] Didier Raboud | > | > | network-manager recommends modemmanager recommends usb-modeswitch. | > | > This sounds like the bug, then. Recommends is «The Recommends field | > should list packages that would be found together with this one in all

Re: RFC: usb-modeswitch 1.2.0 release embedding jimtcl

2011-10-18 Thread Didier Raboud
Tollef Fog Heen wrote: > ]] Didier Raboud > > | network-manager recommends modemmanager recommends usb-modeswitch. > > This sounds like the bug, then. Recommends is «The Recommends field > should list packages that would be found together with this one in all > but unusual installations.» and I

Re: RFC: usb-modeswitch 1.2.0 release embedding jimtcl

2011-10-18 Thread Hendrik Sattler
Am Dienstag, 18. Oktober 2011, 17:03:02 schrieb Ian Jackson: > Timo Juhani Lindfors writes ("Re: RFC: usb-modeswitch 1.2.0 release embedding jimtcl"): > > Didier Raboud writes: > > > Let's also note as context that the goal of this trick (AFAIUI) is to > >

Re: RFC: usb-modeswitch 1.2.0 release embedding jimtcl

2011-10-18 Thread Tollef Fog Heen
]] Didier Raboud | network-manager recommends modemmanager recommends usb-modeswitch. This sounds like the bug, then. Recommends is «The Recommends field should list packages that would be found together with this one in all but unusual installations.» and I belive that the use of NM/MM with a

Re: RFC: usb-modeswitch 1.2.0 release embedding jimtcl

2011-10-18 Thread Roland Mas
Yves-Alexis Perez, 2011-10-18 18:35:04 +0200 : [...] > I'm not even sure network-manager is needed on the desktop install, > but eh. $ LANG=C aptitude why network-manager i gnome-coreDepends network-manager-gnome (>= 0.8.999) i A network-manager-gnome Depends network-manager (>= 0.

Re: RFC: usb-modeswitch 1.2.0 release embedding jimtcl

2011-10-18 Thread Yves-Alexis Perez
On mar., 2011-10-18 at 15:55 +0200, Didier Raboud wrote: > Yves-Alexis Perez wrote: > > Drop usb-modeswitch completely from the default desktop install? > > network-manager recommends modemmanager recommends usb-modeswitch. > > network-manager wants modemmanager to handle "mobile network modems".

Re: RFC: usb-modeswitch 1.2.0 release embedding jimtcl

2011-10-18 Thread Josua Dietze
The size issue was brought up by the Ubuntu people IIRC in the context of their Live CD which should include usb_modeswitch. To clear up my position regarding some of the other points mentioned: * The upstream source package will offer two easy ways of installation (covering 1 2 3). The choice

Re: RFC: usb-modeswitch 1.2.0 release embedding jimtcl

2011-10-18 Thread Timo Juhani Lindfors
Ian Jackson writes: >> The modemmanager package that people typically use with USB 3G modems is >> already in CD#5. > > Isn't that already a problem ? It is, I just tried to illustrate how bad the situation currently is: http://lists.debian.org/debian-boot/2011/08/msg00349.html -- To UNSUBSCR

Re: RFC: usb-modeswitch 1.2.0 release embedding jimtcl

2011-10-18 Thread Ian Jackson
Timo Juhani Lindfors writes ("Re: RFC: usb-modeswitch 1.2.0 release embedding jimtcl"): > Didier Raboud writes: > > Let's also note as context that the goal of this trick (AFAIUI) is to avoid > > having a tcl interpreter pulled up to first CDs; > >

Re: RFC: usb-modeswitch 1.2.0 release embedding jimtcl

2011-10-18 Thread Mathieu Trudel-Lapierre
On Tue, Oct 18, 2011 at 7:36 AM, Didier Raboud wrote: [...] > == Propositions == > > So in order to solve this smartly, I think there are basically 5 > possibilities: > > 1) "Forget about jimtcl, rely on existing tcl interpreters" > >    This is mostly "repacking to avoid the embedded jimtcl copy"

Re: RFC: usb-modeswitch 1.2.0 release embedding jimtcl

2011-10-18 Thread Timo Juhani Lindfors
Didier Raboud writes: > Let's also note as context that the goal of this trick (AFAIUI) is to avoid > having a tcl interpreter pulled up to first CDs; The modemmanager package that people typically use with USB 3G modems is already in CD#5. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lis

Re: RFC: usb-modeswitch 1.2.0 release embedding jimtcl

2011-10-18 Thread Bernd Zeimetz
Hi! On 10/18/2011 01:36 PM, Didier Raboud wrote: > 1) "Forget about jimtcl, rely on existing tcl interpreters" > > This is mostly "repacking to avoid the embedded jimtcl copy", "no > packaging of it, go on as is done currently; by relying on existing tcl > interpreters. > Pros: ea

Re: RFC: usb-modeswitch 1.2.0 release embedding jimtcl

2011-10-18 Thread Didier Raboud
Yves-Alexis Perez wrote: > Drop usb-modeswitch completely from the default desktop install? network-manager recommends modemmanager recommends usb-modeswitch. network-manager wants modemmanager to handle "mobile network modems". modemmanager wants usb-modeswitch because most "mobile network modem

Re: RFC: usb-modeswitch 1.2.0 release embedding jimtcl

2011-10-18 Thread Didier Raboud
Marco d'Itri wrote: > On Oct 18, Didier Raboud wrote: > >> Cons: does not solve the "desktop install needs tcl interpreter". > Is this actually a problem? TCL is < 2 MB, how big is jimtcl? jimsh is 240k. usb-modeswitch-dispatcher compiled with its embedded jimtcl interpreter (that is, wit

Re: RFC: usb-modeswitch 1.2.0 release embedding jimtcl

2011-10-18 Thread Yves-Alexis Perez
On mar., 2011-10-18 at 13:36 +0200, Didier Raboud wrote: > What's your opinion ? Drop usb-modeswitch completely from the default desktop install? -- Yves-Alexis signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Re: RFC: usb-modeswitch 1.2.0 release embedding jimtcl

2011-10-18 Thread Marco d'Itri
On Oct 18, Didier Raboud wrote: > Cons: does not solve the "desktop install needs tcl interpreter". Is this actually a problem? TCL is < 2 MB, how big is jimtcl? -- ciao, Marco signature.asc Description: Digital signature

RFC: usb-modeswitch 1.2.0 release embedding jimtcl

2011-10-18 Thread Didier Raboud
Hi all, while upgrading the usb-modeswitch package to 1.2.0 [0] (currently in "beta"), I noticed that it is now embedding the "jimtcl" interpreter [1]: at build- time, the usb-modeswitch "dispatcher" (currently written in Tcl), can now be embedded in a binary that contains: a tailored jimtcl int