Re: dselect complaints

1996-05-23 Thread Ian Jackson
Kai Grossjohann writes ("Re: dselect complaints"): > [Ian Jackson:]>>>>> On Sun, 19 May 96 14:34 BST, Ian Jackson > > I know that there are many people who don't like dselect. > > [...] > > Suggestions for improvements that don't involve a co

Re: dselect complaints

1996-05-21 Thread Kevin M Bealer
On Sun, 19 May 1996, William S. Gribble wrote: > Ian Jackson wrote: > > I'm not interested in hearing any more complaints or even extensive > > suggestions for improvement, unless the person complaining is > > volunteering to do the work on a new interface. > > If you don't want feedback about th

Re: dselect complaints

1996-05-21 Thread Bruce Perens
> I was going to come down on Mr. Gribble for his post, but that work has > already been done Let's all stop coming down on each other - even the ones who speak out of turn should themselves be corrected gently. Project staff must maintain their cordial dialogue. It's essential for the projec

Re: dselect complaints

1996-05-20 Thread Kai Grossjohann
> On Sun, 19 May 96 14:34 BST, Ian Jackson > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: Ian> I know that there are many people who don't like dselect. Ian> [...] Ian> Suggestions for improvements that don't involve a complete Ian> restructuring are still welcome. I don't have any problem at all wi

Re: dselect complaints

1996-05-20 Thread Raul Miller
Craig Sanders: > If you write a python-tk interface for dselect, maybe somebody > could use your python code as a basis for writing a perl-tk > interface... Aside: compared to the volume of stuff needed to use tk reasonably (enough X to do other tasks reasonably in the same environment), python

Re: dselect complaints

1996-05-20 Thread Alvar Bray
> "William" == "William S Gribble" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: William> Ian Jackson wrote: >> I'm not interested in hearing any more complaints or even extensive >> suggestions for improvement, unless the person complaining is >> volunteering to do the work on a new interface.

Re: dselect complaints

1996-05-20 Thread Craig Sanders
On Sun, 19 May 1996, Jeffrey Ebert wrote: > I think you misunderstood Ian's statement. Once again, you are > complaining (rather harshly, I might add) without volunteering to > write code. Ian has a lot of responsibilities, and he performs them > well. Like Raul, I think that you or others could

Re: dselect complaints

1996-05-20 Thread Jeffrey Ebert
William S. Gribble wrote: > > Ian Jackson wrote: > > I'm not interested in hearing any more complaints or even extensive > > suggestions for improvement, unless the person complaining is > > volunteering to do the work on a new interface. > > If you don't want feedback about the tools, might I su

Re: dselect complaints

1996-05-20 Thread Stephen Early
On Sun, 19 May 1996, William S. Gribble wrote: > Ian Jackson wrote: > > I'm not interested in hearing any more complaints or even extensive > > suggestions for improvement, unless the person complaining is > > volunteering to do the work on a new interface. > > If you don't want feedback about th

Re: dselect complaints

1996-05-19 Thread Raul Miller
William S. Gribble: > If you don't want feedback about the tools, might I suggest that > you give up their maintenance to someone who does? Dselect as it > exists is nothing more or less than a working prototype of the tool > it needs to be. That's not the point. Ian has had feedback. Lot's

Re: dselect complaints

1996-05-19 Thread William S. Gribble
Ian Jackson wrote: > I'm not interested in hearing any more complaints or even extensive > suggestions for improvement, unless the person complaining is > volunteering to do the work on a new interface. If you don't want feedback about the tools, might I suggest that you give up their maintenance

dselect complaints

1996-05-19 Thread Ian Jackson
I know that there are many people who don't like dselect. I'm not interested in hearing any more complaints or even extensive suggestions for improvement, unless the person complaining is volunteering to do the work on a new interface. Suggestions for improvements that don't involve a complete re