Re: dictd and wordnet

1998-04-17 Thread Turbo Fredriksson
Andreas Tille <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Could you make xteddy pop up at kernel oops? > > You can place a real teddy on your monitor and so you have it even if > your monitor is switched of. switched of? You mean you guys have a real life beyond computers? :) -- ---

Re: dictd and wordnet

1998-04-17 Thread Andreas Tille
On Thu, 16 Apr 1998, Marcus Brinkmann wrote: > I blame you for that. How can you take xteddy not serious? We need it. > Everyone needs a teddy. This is human psychology. :) I think xteddy it more funny than serious but the job of maintaining it I will take serious. It this time I'm busy to give t

Re: dictd and wordnet

1998-04-16 Thread Marcus Brinkmann
On Thu, Apr 16, 1998 at 09:05:12AM +0200, Andreas Tille wrote: > On Wed, 15 Apr 1998, Bob Hilliard wrote: > serious package (I don't consider xteddy to be serious but only for the > sake of learning maintaining a package). I blame you for that. How can you take xteddy not serious? We need it. Ev

Re: dictd and wordnet

1998-04-16 Thread Bob Hilliard
Hi, > > The old WordNet packages used usr/lib/wordnet/dict/. I believe > This seemed me a bad choice and so I wanted to change it. I agree. It seems undesirable to create a directory with nothing in it but a subdirectory, if there is no expectation of adding more files or directories

Re: dictd and wordnet

1998-04-16 Thread Bob Hilliard
Jean Pierre LeJacq <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Actually, /usr/share/dict. Shouldn't new package be constructed from > the start to use FHS? IIRC, it is intended to implement the FHS with symlinks initially. Until a definite announcement is made regarding the policy for implementing the FHS

Re: dictd and wordnet

1998-04-16 Thread Andreas Tille
On Thu, 16 Apr 1998, Jean Pierre LeJacq wrote: > Actually, /usr/share/dict. Shouldn't new package be constructed from > the start to use FHS? I think so and my favourite directory is /usr/share/dict/wordnet > What format are these files in? Are they ASCII? The reason I ask is > tha

Re: dictd and wordnet

1998-04-16 Thread Andreas Tille
On Thu, 16 Apr 1998, Bob Hilliard wrote: > I'm also a new maintainer, and dictd is my first package, so it's > doubtful that I could give you much help, but I'll be glad to try if > you have problems. You should subscribe to debian-mentors, if you > haven't already. A number of very experie

Re: dictd and wordnet

1998-04-16 Thread Jean Pierre LeJacq
On Thu, 16 Apr 1998, Bob Hilliard wrote: > > Would you think that /usr/lib/dict is an appropriate directory for > > the Wordnet database (the filenames didn't conflict!). > > The old WordNet packages used usr/lib/wordnet/dict/. I believe > either /usr/lib/dict/ or /usr/lib/dict/wordnet/ (si

Re: dictd and wordnet

1998-04-16 Thread Bob Hilliard
Hi, You wrote: > I'm in the process of becomming a Debian maintainer. Unfortunately this > process isn't finished since two weeks (may be it is delayed because of > the efforts in the upcomming hamm release). I would like to maintain > wordnet than. But may be I would need your help becau

Re: dictd and wordnet

1998-04-16 Thread Andreas Tille
On Wed, 15 Apr 1998, Bob Hilliard wrote: > I had been thinking about taking over the wordnet packages, but you > got there first, and I won't argue about it. If you change your mind > about them, let me know. I'm in the process of becomming a Debian maintainer. Unfortunately this process is

dictd and wordnet

1998-04-16 Thread Bob Hilliard
Hi, This is in response to your message of Wed, 8 Apr 1998. I apologize for taking so long to get back to you. As I said before, I am packaging dictd, containing the client server software developed by the DICT Group. There will be a number of separate packages containing the dictio