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On Sun, 2005-01-09 at 19:53 -0600, Chip DeVoge wrote: |
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> Yes or a text menu of choices of spec files. |
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> More specifically a spec to make a livecd backup of my distfiles and portage |
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> (similar to the 2 cd stage 3 install only up to date for my system) and one |
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> for making a live gamecd. |
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So you want a specific spec-file creation which is different than the |
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general Gentoo purpose for catalyst? I'm afraid you'll be on your own |
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on this one, at least while heavy catalyst development is still going |
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on. Perhaps one of the nice members of this list could write up a set |
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of spec files for you to accomplish just this. |
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As for the GameCD stuff, there's a reason why I (the Games Team GameCD |
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guy, along with my Release Engineering responsibilities) haven't |
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released any GameCD releases. |
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It doesn't work. In fact, that is one of the things that I am |
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developing fairly heavily, as it parallels the X-based LiveCD stuff so |
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easily. |
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It really boils down to one thing. Would you rather us stop working on |
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catalyst and focus on making a GUI for it which would be inflexible and |
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only capable of limited functionality, or would you rather us spend our |
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time improving catalyst with new features and better documentation? |
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Anyone can write a GUI for catalyst, especially a GUI for creating spec |
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files. Remember that spec-file creation is *not* a function of |
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catalyst, at all. The spec-files are simply used by catalyst. |
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Therefore a GUI spec-file builder does not have to be tied to catalyst's |
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development in any way, other than to offer all the options that |
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catalyst does. |
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> On Sunday 09 January 2005 16:19, Chris Gianelloni wrote: |
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> > On Sat, 2005-01-08 at 14:08 -0600, Chip DeVoge wrote: |
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> > > A gui for catalyst would be nice. And a menu of scripts. |
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> > No offense meant by this, but how exactly would a gui be better than |
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> > "catalyst -f spec.file"? If you had other ideas on its use, please |
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> > explain, as I'm just not seeing it. |
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> I think he means a graphical interface for creating spec-files. |
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Chris Gianelloni |
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Release Engineering - Operational/QA Manager |
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Games - Developer |
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