Re: [dev] [dmenu] versioning and patching

2016-03-19 Thread Dimitris Papastamos
On Mon, Mar 14, 2016 at 07:25:22PM -0700, Eric Pruitt wrote: > On Mon, Mar 14, 2016 at 08:12:17PM -0600, Anthony J. Bentley wrote: > > Boruch Baum writes: > > > 1] I want to request that dmenu produce 'correct' output for its > > > --version command. Currently, the ouput is identical to --help oupu

Re: [dev] [dmenu] versioning and patching

2016-03-18 Thread Hiltjo Posthuma
On Tue, Mar 15, 2016 at 9:45 AM, Boruch Baum wrote: >> > @myself: The 'correct' way would be to use compile-time macros. If > dmenu/suckless wants to go the way of compile-time macros, that's also > an alternative to keeping the code of the suckless/official patches > external to the dmenu source

Re: [dev] [dmenu] versioning and patching

2016-03-15 Thread Boruch Baum
On 03/15/2016 04:14 AM, Boruch Baum wrote: > On 03/15/2016 03:02 AM, Martin Kühne wrote: >> how do you want to tell what patches have been applied? setting up the >> infrastructure for that would be ridiculously complex, since the codebase is >> anything but luxury in that regard and neither is t

Re: [dev] [dmenu] versioning and patching

2016-03-15 Thread Boruch Baum
On 03/14/2016 10:25 PM, Eric Pruitt wrote: > On Mon, Mar 14, 2016 at 08:12:17PM -0600, Anthony J. Bentley wrote: >> Boruch Baum writes: >>> 1] I want to request that dmenu produce 'correct' output for its >>> --version command. Currently, the ouput is identical to --help ouput and >>> gives no vers

Re: [dev] [dmenu] versioning and patching

2016-03-15 Thread Boruch Baum
On 03/15/2016 03:02 AM, Martin Kühne wrote: > how do you want to tell what patches have been applied? setting up the > infrastructure for that would be ridiculously complex, since the codebase is > anything but luxury in that regard and neither is the build tools that are > used. > ffs, we use p

Re: [dev] [dmenu] versioning and patching

2016-03-14 Thread Eric Pruitt
On Mon, Mar 14, 2016 at 08:12:17PM -0600, Anthony J. Bentley wrote: > Boruch Baum writes: > > 1] I want to request that dmenu produce 'correct' output for its > > --version command. Currently, the ouput is identical to --help ouput and > > gives no version information at all. > > --help and --versi

Re: [dev] [dmenu] versioning and patching

2016-03-14 Thread Anthony J. Bentley
Boruch Baum writes: > 1] I want to request that dmenu produce 'correct' output for its > --version command. Currently, the ouput is identical to --help ouput and > gives no version information at all. --help and --version give the same output because they're both invalid options. -- Anthony J. B

[dev] [dmenu] versioning and patching

2016-03-14 Thread Boruch Baum
1] I want to request that dmenu produce 'correct' output for its --version command. Currently, the ouput is identical to --help ouput and gives no version information at all. 2] It would be particularly helpful to me for the output of --version to include information of any/all official features/p