From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from smtp.gentoo.org (smtp.gentoo.org [156.56.111.197]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.1/8.13.1) with ESMTP id j0AE5qik012260 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NOT) for ; Mon, 10 Jan 2005 14:05:53 GMT Received: from smtp.nuvox.net ([64.89.70.9] helo=smtp04.gnvlscdb.sys.nuvox.net) by smtp.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.42) id 1Co0B6-0006gX-01 for gentoo-catalyst@robin.gentoo.org; Mon, 10 Jan 2005 14:05:52 +0000 Received: from cgianelloni.nuvox.net (216.215.202.4.nw.nuvox.net [216.215.202.4]) by smtp04.gnvlscdb.sys.nuvox.net (8.12.11/8.12.11) with SMTP id j0AE66TI026733 for ; Mon, 10 Jan 2005 09:06:06 -0500 Received: by cgianelloni.nuvox.net (sSMTP sendmail emulation); Mon, 10 Jan 2005 09:06:06 -0500 Subject: Re: [gentoo-catalyst] Wishlist for 2005 From: Chris Gianelloni Reply-To: wolf31o2@gentoo.org To: gentoo-catalyst@robin.gentoo.org In-Reply-To: References: Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="=-y26oyUO/Gz7mFDShWLGB" Organization: Gentoo Linux Date: Mon, 10 Jan 2005 09:06:05 -0500 Message-Id: <1105365965.13214.93.camel@cgianelloni.nuvox.net> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-catalyst@gentoo.org Reply-To: gentoo-catalyst@gentoo.org Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.0.3 X-Archives-Salt: 4ba65a1b-4d42-4741-bc08-a805278739d2 X-Archives-Hash: 9d3bf61998c836bb1b2ad8ff46f16e48 --=-y26oyUO/Gz7mFDShWLGB Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Sun, 2005-01-09 at 19:53 -0600, Chip DeVoge wrote: > Yes or a text menu of choices of spec files. > More specifically a spec to make a livecd backup of my distfiles and port= age=20 > (similar to the 2 cd stage 3 install only up to date for my system) and o= ne=20 > for making a live gamecd. So you want a specific spec-file creation which is different than the general Gentoo purpose for catalyst? I'm afraid you'll be on your own on this one, at least while heavy catalyst development is still going on. Perhaps one of the nice members of this list could write up a set of spec files for you to accomplish just this. As for the GameCD stuff, there's a reason why I (the Games Team GameCD guy, along with my Release Engineering responsibilities) haven't released any GameCD releases. It doesn't work. In fact, that is one of the things that I am developing fairly heavily, as it parallels the X-based LiveCD stuff so easily. It really boils down to one thing. Would you rather us stop working on catalyst and focus on making a GUI for it which would be inflexible and only capable of limited functionality, or would you rather us spend our time improving catalyst with new features and better documentation? Anyone can write a GUI for catalyst, especially a GUI for creating spec files. Remember that spec-file creation is *not* a function of catalyst, at all. The spec-files are simply used by catalyst. Therefore a GUI spec-file builder does not have to be tied to catalyst's development in any way, other than to offer all the options that catalyst does. > On Sunday 09 January 2005 16:19, Chris Gianelloni wrote: > > On Sat, 2005-01-08 at 14:08 -0600, Chip DeVoge wrote: > > > A gui for catalyst would be nice. And a menu of scripts. > > > > No offense meant by this, but how exactly would a gui be better than > > "catalyst -f spec.file"? If you had other ideas on its use, please > > explain, as I'm just not seeing it. >=20 > I think he means a graphical interface for creating spec-files. --=20 Chris Gianelloni Release Engineering - Operational/QA Manager Games - Developer Gentoo Linux --=-y26oyUO/Gz7mFDShWLGB Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name=signature.asc Content-Description: This is a digitally signed message part -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.0 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQBB4ovNkT4lNIS36YERAmKPAJ4g6SgyRqCRgyldZO/3A1Rh+EEcYwCfcy6L WVzTeo1GWU8yxjptRGqZqS4= =TFfe -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --=-y26oyUO/Gz7mFDShWLGB-- -- gentoo-catalyst@gentoo.org mailing list