On Mon, Dec 17, 2007 at 12:22:20PM -0500, William Davis wrote:
On Dec 17, 2007, at 10:44 AM, Joerg van den Hoff wrote:
On Mon, Dec 17, 2007 at 02:01:58PM +0100, Vincent Lefevre wrote:
On 2007-12-17 13:35:00 +0100, Joerg van den Hoff wrote:
since `ion3' actually is a very fine window manager for a certain type of work, may I ask you to check whether it would'nt be sufficient to modify the package info line accordingly with some "wildcard" disclaimer of the kind:
"if this version is older than xxx weeks, please take note that this version is considered "obsolete" by the original author. upgrade manually to the most recent version found at http://modeemi.cs.tut.fi/~tuomov/ion/ before sending bug reports or questions to the author"
The name also needs to be changed.
what name? the name of the package? why not call it `ion3_x11-wm' or whatever? I think one should be as pragmatic as possible about this: problem is artficial (from macports point of view, anyway), but ion3 is good software, so make the name change, explain reason in package info, provide package and forget about the "noise". this possible or not?
joerg _______________________________________________
Because using the name ion3 in any form would be a license violation.
ok, got it. but the debian solution (some other arbitrary name) would work. so why can't you just include this (the renaming of the executable) into the patch procedure.
Given the author's propensity for flame wars (not to mention possible law suits) I think IMHO we are better off without him.
May I suggest you complain to the author instead. Why doesnt he
believe me, I did. but you can only talk so much.
incorporate a check for updates in his software and tell the end user there is no support for non-current versions if this bothers him so much?
he will tell you that the user's are'nt going to read this, so it's not prominent enough etc etc.
nevertheless, `ion3' is a very good tool (the author's attitude does not shine through :-)), so I would really appriciate it, if it's availability could somehow be secured. joerg