Re: [Savannah-hackers] submission of LAN message system - savannah.nongnu.org

[Sylvain Beucler]

Hi,

Sorry if I was not clear enough.

The MS Windows version appeared more developed to me mainly because it
had a GUI with localization.

Hosting only the other version is a solution; you can also provide it
the same features than the MS Windows version.

Just submit again your project and I will be happy to look at it.

Regards,

-- 
Sylvain



On Mon, Sep 06, 2004 at 12:30:13PM +0200, address@hidden wrote:
> Sylvain,
> 
> I do not understand it. The windows port is because there are still some
> windows computers in our network (but i do not care that much about that 
> port).
> I am not aware of the win32 port having more features (it isn't as extensible
> because the main version executes a perl script upon receival of a message). 
> Can
> tou give me a clue? If that would be better, the windows port could be left 
> out,
> that's not a problem at all.
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Maarten Deprez
> 
> On Sat, Sep 04, 2004 at 10:31:59AM +0200, Sylvain Beucler wrote:
> > Hi,
> > 
> > Even though your project is Free Software it can not be hosted here.
> > We only host projects that can run primarily on a free operating
> > system (such as Debian GNU/Linux).
> > 
> > We have adopted this policy because now that completely free operating
> > systems exist, we do not want to encourage users of those systems to
> > start using proprietary operating systems so that they can use your
> > program.
> > 
> > If you are willing to maintain a version for free operating systems,
> > which work as well as or better than other ports, you can
> > then provide versions for nonfree systems as well.  The idea is that at
> > no point should only-free users be at a disadvantage compared to users of
> > proprietary software.
> > 
> > Your project should always work equally well in free systems as in any
> > other version you provide; if you have some modules for nonfree
> > systems, you can delay their release until you have released the free
> > operating system version.
> > 
> > If you accept this commitment then please register your project again
> > and it should be approved in Savannah.
> > 
> > Thank you for your understanding.
> > 
> > Regards,
> > 
> > -- 
> > Sylvain
> > 
> > 
> > On Fri, Sep 03, 2004 at 10:27:51AM +0200, address@hidden wrote:
> > > Two tarballs are attached: GNU/linux version and win32 version.
> > > 
> > > Maarten
> > > 
> > > On Thu, Sep 02, 2004 at 08:37:44PM +0200, Sylvain Beucler wrote:
> > > > Hi,
> > > > 
> > > > I'm evaluating the project you submitted for approval in Savannah.
> > > > 
> > > > Can you please send me a tarball? I do not have the patience nor the
> > > > time to grab each file individually from the server ;)
> > > > 
> > > > Regards,
> > > > 
> > > > -- 
> > > > Sylvain
> > > > 
> > > > On Sat, Apr 10, 2004 at 06:34:53AM -0400, address@hidden wrote:
> > > > > A package was submitted to savannah.nongnu.org
> > > > > This mail was sent to address@hidden, address@hidden
> > > > > 
> > > > > 
> > > > > Maarten Deprez <address@hidden> described the package as follows:
> > > > > License: gpl
> > > > > Other License: 
> > > > > Package: LAN message system
> > > > > System name: message
> > > > > Type: non-GNU
> > > > > 
> > > > > Description:
> > > > > This package consists of two programs: send and receive. They are 
> > > > > used to send and receive simple messages over a LAN (or other 
> > > > > network) in UDP packets, so that broadcasting or multicasting is 
> > > > > possible.
> > > > > 
> > > > > "send" sends a message to all ip addresses given on the command line. 
> > > > > The message is read from stdin.
> > > > > "receive" listens for incoming messages for the ip address of the 
> > > > > computer it runs on, or for one of the multicast groups (given on the 
> > > > > command line). When it receives a message, it runs a script, piping 
> > > > > the message text to he stdin. That script should then takes some 
> > > > > action, e.g. writing it on the console, or showing a message box.
> > > > > 
> > > > > These programs, and windows version, can be downloaded from 
> > > > > http://deprez-aerts.dyndns.org/~maarten/ (look in the message and 
> > > > > message-win32 directories), when our home server is on (during the 
> > > > > day in Belgium).