Re: ITP: TIP

1999-12-29 Thread Richard Braakman
On Wed, Dec 29, 1999 at 09:46:14AM +0100, Jordi Mallach wrote: > Oh. The author just knew about this 2 or 3 days ago, and he is still > pondering about the name change. Should there be any problem for an initial > tip package release, and after change the name? Yes, it's a lot more work for the ar

Re: ITP: TIP

1999-12-29 Thread Peter S Galbraith
Remco Blaakmeer wrote: > On Wed, 29 Dec 1999, Jordi wrote: > > > I asked for comments in debian-mentors about how to make users aware of the > > availability of a free package that replaces a non-free one that they > > already were using. One idea was to make Pine Recommend: tip | pico, and > >

Re: ITP: TIP

1999-12-29 Thread Remco Blaakmeer
On Wed, 29 Dec 1999, Jordi wrote: > I asked for comments in debian-mentors about how to make users aware of the > availability of a free package that replaces a non-free one that they > already were using. One idea was to make Pine Recommend: tip | pico, and > that sounds fair enough. Any other?

Re: ITP: TIP

1999-12-29 Thread Nick Moffitt
Quoting Craig Sanders: > i suggest a name change to Tipo - Tip Isn't Pico, Oh! > > binary could be /usr/bin/tipo I recommend "cipo", as it's an anagram of "pico". It could be pronounced "Chipo" as in "It's a cipoff the old block." Maybe zeppo? -- CrackMonkey.Org - Non-sequitur

Re: ITP: TIP

1999-12-29 Thread Clint Adams
> Oh. The author just knew about this 2 or 3 days ago, and he is still > pondering about the name change. Should there be any problem for an initial > tip package release, and after change the name? > > I have tried to find that other tip around, but I couldn't find it. What is > it? DESCRIPTION

Re: ITP: TIP

1999-12-29 Thread Craig Sanders
On Wed, Dec 29, 1999 at 09:45:54AM +0100, Jordi Mallach wrote: > On Tue, Dec 28, 1999 at 09:08:50PM -0500, Clint Adams wrote: > > > Tip stands for Tip isn't Pico, and is a GPL'd Pico clone, written from > > > scratch. > > > > It's great that there's a free pico clone, but I see namespace > > confu

Re: ITP: TIP

1999-12-29 Thread Jordi Mallach
On Tue, Dec 28, 1999 at 09:08:50PM -0500, Clint Adams wrote: > > Tip stands for Tip isn't Pico, and is a GPL'd Pico clone, written from > > scratch. > > It's great that there's a free pico clone, but I see namespace > confusion and conflicts on systems with the sort of tip that > uses /etc/remote,

Re: ITP: TIP

1999-12-29 Thread Clint Adams
> Tip stands for Tip isn't Pico, and is a GPL'd Pico clone, written from > scratch. It's great that there's a free pico clone, but I see namespace confusion and conflicts on systems with the sort of tip that uses /etc/remote, which is not currently in Debian, but should be. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, e