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From: Enrico Weigelt <weigelt@×××××.de>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Announce: standalone libgpm
Date: Tue, 04 Jul 2006 22:55:34
Message-Id: 20060704224742.GB29384@nibiru.local
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] Announce: standalone libgpm by Mike Frysinger
1 * Mike Frysinger <vapier@g.o> schrieb:
2
3 <snip>
4
5 > > The upstream seems to be quite dead at the moment. No traffic
6 > > goes through the lists, the last release quite old and lots of
7 > > patches outstanding.
8 >
9 > Nico is alive, he responds from time to time ... i also have git
10 > commit access so things posted to the list i can review
11
12 Good.
13 But the maillist doesn't seem to be up again :(
14
15 <snip>
16
17 > i dont see any outstanding patches on the mailing list
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19 I'm referring to the ones in the release tarball.
20
21 > > BTW: libgpm is an fork-off from gpm, which just contains the client
22 > > stuff. Maybe it will evolve to an more generic mouse library, ie.
23 > > supporting other interfaces, like sysmouse directly.
24 >
25 > my point is it shouldnt be a fork
26
27 Yes, would be better, if it's included in the gpm release.
28 But: it should be possible to build/install it independently from
29 gpm, and also to build gpm against an already installed libgpm.
30 So actually two separate packages, maybe distributed in one tarball.
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32
33 cu
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Re: [gentoo-dev] Announce: standalone libgpm Mike Frysinger <vapier@g.o>