[cells-devel] New Cells User Feedback (includes patch!)

[Kenny Tilton]

Peter Denno wrote:

>On Friday 22 April 2005 19:09, Kenny Tilton wrote:
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>>James,
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>>This is great feedback, and I agree with all of it. The only problem is
>>that there is little active interest in Cells, other than my own use of
>>it, so I am not worrying much these days about making the Cells project
>>approachable to others.
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>>What I did with Cells-gtk was get a heavy user or two authorized as
>>project admins so they could do things like fixing asdf-install.
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>I'd be one of those.
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>I'd be happy to apply this to cells-gtk. Is this what you were referring to 
>when you were referring to the "gui stuff" ? 
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I think James was talking about Cells (active directory) being buried 
under cell-cultures along with the Cello "gui stuff".

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>I think I know the sort of problem you are trying to address here.  
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>You might not see this in the distribution for a few weeks. Some time in May 
>I'm going to look into getting cells-gtk running on sbcl, among other things.
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>>I suggest you poke around and see if you want to use Cells for anything,
>>and if so we can sort out the mess in CVS. I want to look at moving
>>Cello out of the Cells project and back to the Cello project on c-l.net,
>>and get cells out from under cells-culture back to being a top-level
>>module of the Cells project.
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>>Of course Cells-gtk would then have to be told the new home of Cells
>>(and utils-kt and hello-c), so it could be a messy week. 
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>We have a tarball distribution to weather messy weeks.
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Don't encourage me. <g>

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>>Which is why I 
>>will hold off until folks such as yourself pester me for, oh, two weeks
>>straight. :)
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>>Thanks again for the input.
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>>kenny
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>Hey kenny is this really you? It looks like the shift key is starting to work 
>on your keyboard ;^)
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moment of weakness. :)

well, keep the pestering up (13 more days to go) and we can do something.

Is hello-c (or whatever we want to call "UFFI extended to support 
callbacks into Lisp from C as well as CLisp") going to get enough 
attention to warrant its own c-l.net project?

Should utils-kt quietly be redundantly added to Cells and hello-c? Or is 
it fine as a module under Cells? I doubt it is worth making into its own 
project, as at least one other did.

etc etc.

kt