[Surfraw-devel] Re: About surfraw! ;-)

[Thomas Smith]

Hi,

On Monday 01 September 2003 12:53, Kevin Kreamer wrote:
> Thomas Smith <tgs@resc.net> writes:
> > If it's going to take a while to discuss the namespace issues, I'll just
> > apply the chunks of Kevin's patch that don't affect that, and make an
> > interim upload.
> 
> Could you please make that interim upload?  That would at least get
> the bug count down some on surfraw.

Thanks for poking me.  I've applied your patch, minus the naughty bits, I'm 
about to check that into CVS, and I will upload later tonight if nobody 
shouts about CVS being broken or anything.

I'd like to add that the decision to use sensible-browser rather than a 
build-time-chosen browser was brilliant, and I'd like to commend you for 
it :-)

> Also, what's your latest thoughts on the namespace issues?  I posted
> mine a while back on this list, but got no responses.  I'd like to
> get them decided soon, hopefully.

I had an idea which would eliminate all my objections.  I think that the 
surfraw program should be able to change a user's .bashrc/.cshrc/whatever so 
that the surfraw binary directory is part of their path.  Like, when you run 
"surfraw", it maybe tells you the elvi as it currently does, and then says 
something like

TO USE SURFRAW: run "sr <elvis-name> <search terms>"
OR run "surfraw --update-rc-files" to add the elvi to your $PATH.

Does this seem reasonable?  Adding the change should be easy, just appending a 
line or two to the end of the correct dotfile.


On an unrelated note, do you suppose CVS commit messages are sent to this 
list?  They probably won't be too high volume, should I set that up if it 
isn't already that way?

Have a nice day!
 -thomas