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  • Director developers (was: Director's Calendar - weird bug)

    From Harriet Bazley@21:1/5 to Harriet Bazley on Tue Aug 2 20:58:52 2022
    On 2 Aug 2022 as I do recall,
    Harriet Bazley wrote:

    On 2 Aug 2022 as I do recall,
    Paul Sprangers wrote:

    [snip]


    Anyhow, it seems that this small change may work, as far as I've tested it (admittedly, not very far):

    [snip]

    I committed the cardinal sin of not saving a copy of the original before starting my tinkering about, but I *think* I managed to undo everything before inserting this replacement, and it does seem to work, thanks - in
    that it doesn't obviously crash, anyway, and doesn't generate months
    with blank lines, although I didn't double-check to make sure that it
    does put all the days in the correct columns.


    I tried posting to the Director mailing list earlier, but nothing ever
    appeared - the mailing list archives at Sourceforge appear to be empty,
    and my attempt at contacting the developers failed.

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    <<< 451-<harriet@bazleyfamily.co.uk> to <director-developers@lists.sourceforge.net>.
    <<< 451 Please try later.

    Who is currently supporting/distributing the Director software?

    --
    Harriet Bazley == Loyaulte me lie ==

    A man's best friend is his dogma.

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  • From Theo@21:1/5 to Harriet Bazley on Thu Aug 4 17:04:27 2022
    Harriet Bazley <harriet@bazleyfamily.co.uk> wrote:
    Who is currently supporting/distributing the Director software?

    I'm not sure if anyone is, but I note the CVS repository is still alive: http://director.cvs.sourceforge.net/

    So it's there if anyone wants to take it on - eg convert it to another
    version control system and host it elsewhere, from where it would be easier
    to apply changes and make new releases.

    Anyone want to do it?

    Theo
    (riscos.info can offer SVN hosting, although I tend to recommend github
    for hosting repos these days as it's more robust)

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  • From Steve Fryatt@21:1/5 to Theo on Thu Aug 4 20:42:01 2022
    On 4 Aug, Theo wrote in message
    <VaC*cUVUy@news.chiark.greenend.org.uk>:

    I'm not sure if anyone is, but I note the CVS repository is still alive: http://director.cvs.sourceforge.net/

    So it's there if anyone wants to take it on - eg convert it to another version control system and host it elsewhere, from where it would be
    easier to apply changes and make new releases.

    Anyone want to do it?

    I could have a look if anyone would actually make use of it. Director's a permanent fixture on my iconbar, so there's some self-interest.

    Theo (riscos.info can offer SVN hosting, although I tend to recommend
    github for hosting repos these days as it's more robust)

    Would the riscos.info project on GitHub be a sensible place for it?

    (I should probably get around to finishing the work that I was doing there
    on StrongHelp and WinEd sometime, too...).

    --
    Steve Fryatt - Leeds, England

    http://www.stevefryatt.org.uk/

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  • From Theo@21:1/5 to Steve Fryatt on Fri Aug 5 00:00:16 2022
    Steve Fryatt <news@stevefryatt.org.uk> wrote:
    On 4 Aug, Theo wrote in message
    <VaC*cUVUy@news.chiark.greenend.org.uk>:

    Theo (riscos.info can offer SVN hosting, although I tend to recommend github for hosting repos these days as it's more robust)

    Would the riscos.info project on GitHub be a sensible place for it?

    Sounds as good as any. There is already a summary page in the wiki: https://www.riscos.info/index.php/Director

    and it would be possible to link to releases from there.

    Theo

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  • From druck@21:1/5 to Steve Fryatt on Fri Aug 5 12:18:45 2022
    On 04/08/2022 20:42, Steve Fryatt wrote:
    On 4 Aug, Theo wrote in message
    <VaC*cUVUy@news.chiark.greenend.org.uk>:
    Theo (riscos.info can offer SVN hosting, although I tend to recommend
    github for hosting repos these days as it's more robust)

    Would the riscos.info project on GitHub be a sensible place for it?

    Get as much RISC OS source code on there as possible, then GitHubs
    copilot be able to knockout RISC OS applications automatically - lack of developers solved! [Joke]

    ---druck

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