Date: Mon, 29 Jan 2007 23:26:55 +0100 From: Jeremie Le Hen <jeremie@le-hen.org> To: Cy Schubert <Cy.Schubert@komquats.com> Cc: Jeremie Le Hen <jeremie@le-hen.org>, freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Vertical split patch in sysutils/screen Message-ID: <20070129222655.GL64768@obiwan.tataz.chchile.org> In-Reply-To: <200701291604.l0TG49id012951@cwsys.cwsent.com> References: <20070129140114.GA64768@obiwan.tataz.chchile.org> <200701291604.l0TG49id012951@cwsys.cwsent.com>
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Hi Cy, On Mon, Jan 29, 2007 at 08:04:09AM -0800, Cy Schubert wrote: > A couple of comments. Something like this should be integrated into the > base screen software. screen-devel@gnu.org or screen-users@gnu.org might be > a good place to start. That is the preferred approach. If the greater > screen community does not feel this additional functionality is necessary > and if we the FreeBSD community feel it is, I believe we could implement > this. For something like this we should approach the GNU screen developers > first. > > If we as a FreeBSD community decide to implement this outside of the GNU > screen development community, I'd like to spend some time testing it. > People are free to test it and let me know what they think. > > Firstly though, we should submit this to screen-devel@gnu.org. I would like > to be in the loop when you do submit it to them. Yes, I know the principle of upstream sources and I perfectly agree with you. However, I think the patch have already been brought to attention of screen-devel@gnu.org. The problem is that this patch breaks some features, as described in the "Bugs" section of its webpage [1] and have this not been adopted. I fully understand you don't want to break screen. However I am a user of this patch and I don't care about the broken features, and so does a friend of mine. I supposes there might be other users in this case, so I've made the patch. I would understand if you didn't want to commit this. However if you agree to commit it with a bug warning message, I can correct my patch to add this message in which I will detail the broken features. Please, let me know about your decision. Thank you. Best regards, [1] http://fungi.yuggoth.org/vsp4s/ -- Jeremie Le Hen < jeremie at le-hen dot org >< ttz at chchile dot org >
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