[Foresight-devel] Re: New Package: Quarry

[Kevin Harriss]

On 8/30/07, Chris Giroir <kelsin at valefor.com> wrote:
>
> Howdy! I just started using Foresight Linux and so far I love it.
> Having the latest gnome running perfectly out of the box is wonderful
> but the best part...


Glad to here you really love it.  That is what we strive for.


Emacs 23 in the repo! Absolutely incredible! Normally the first thing
> I have to do on a distro is find out how to install Emacs23 the
> "proper" way, and if not compile it myself (which has sadly become way
> to much of a habit). It was a really pleasant surprise to browse on
> rBuilder and find it!


WOOT!!, Another Emacs user.

Anyway, I wanted to package up the main program that I miss during my
> day to day activities while using Foresight: Quarry
>
> Quarry is a go playing program. I guess similar to gnomego which is in
> Foresight now. gnomego crashes for me when I tried to run it earlier
> and I've been using Quarry for a while and really enjoy it. I will be
> trying to submit some changes to gnomego to get it running as well but
> for now I wanted to see what people thought of this package.


If you could file an issues at http://issues.foresightlinux.org about
gnomego crashing and any solution if you come up with one.


Anyway here is my package currently:
> http://www.rpath.com/rbuilder/repos/valefor/troveInfo?t=quarry
>
> IRC has been very helpful in explaining a few things that the docs
> fail to mention. I hopefully will be updating the Foresight wiki with
> what I learned in a few days. As of now I just want to continue
> learning and doing small updates to things and packages that I find
> useful.


That is one of the best ways to learn.  That is how I learned and am still
learning conary tips and tricks.


I just noticed that I have been added as a developer to Foresight on
> rBuilder Online. Thanks! I don't know what that means as far as what I
> can do, but I'm sure I'll be asking those kinds of questions on this
> list.


If I recall correctly, that means you have commit access to the repos for
foresight.


-- 
specialKevin
Kevin Harriss
http://www.foresightlinux.org