[aur-general] TU process

[Nathan O]

On Tue, Aug 24, 2010 at 8:06 PM, Nathan O <ndowens.aur at gmail.com> wrote:

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> On Tue, Aug 24, 2010 at 4:37 PM, Philipp Überbacher <hollunder at lavabit.com
> > wrote:
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>> Excerpts from Nathan O's message of 2010-08-24 22:52:57 +0200:
>> > On Tue, Aug 24, 2010 at 3:31 PM, Philipp Überbacher
>> > <hollunder at lavabit.com>wrote:
>> >
>> > > Excerpts from Nathan O's message of 2010-08-24 21:51:28 +0200:
>> > > > On Tue, Aug 24, 2010 at 5:32 AM, Chris Brannon <
>> cmbrannon79 at gmail.com
>> > > >wrote:
>> > > >
>> > > > > Nathan O <ndowens.aur at gmail.com> writes:
>> > > > >
>> > > > > > I am not good at resume' like stuff LOL. I mean I don't know
>> > > programming
>> > > > > > which would probably be kind of looked down on. Though on the
>> upside
>> > > I am
>> > > > > > online every night :)
>> > > > >
>> > > > > Shell scripting is the only language that a TU *must* know.
>> > >  Familiarity
>> > > > > with others can be helpful at times.  For instance, I've
>> occasionally
>> > > > > had to write patches for C-based packages.  If I hadn't been
>> capable of
>> > > > > writing those, I would have found someone who was, either
>> upstream, or
>> > > > > within the TU community.  Can you research a problem and find a
>> > > solution
>> > > > > to it?  That's a valuable skill; don't underestimate it.
>> > > > >
>> > > > > -- Chri
>> > > > >
>> > > >
>> > > >
>> > > > Currently I was having a issue with algoscore. Namcap gave a
>> insecure
>> > > rpath,
>> > > > so I figured out how to fix that and created a patch. At some point
>> in
>> > > time
>> > > > today I got to figure out what is causing the actual program to not
>> run
>> > > or
>> > > > crash.
>> > > > I know a bit of shell scripting, I am not the greatest but I can do
>> some
>> > > > scripting. :)
>> > >
>> > > I'm looking forward to trying algoscore once you got it running. I may
>> > > be able to help you a bit with packaging too.
>> > > --
>> > > Philipp
>> > >
>> > > --
>> > > "Wir stehen selbst enttäuscht und sehn betroffen / Den Vorhang zu
>> > > und alle Fragen offen." Bertolt Brecht, Der gute Mensch von Sezuan
>> > >
>> > > Thanks for the offer. I am going to try and get it working on my own
>> at
>> > first :) I think I am on the right track. I just got to get the actual
>> app
>> > to run, because it will keeps crashing, so the packaging is fine. It is
>> just
>> > the app that is bad currently.
>>
>> Well, I had a look at the readme, which says:
>> If you're using ROX-Filer, you should just be able to start the AppDir
>> by double-clicking it, and AlgoScore will try to compile itself if no
>> binary existed already.
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>> As it happens, ROX-Filer is my favorite file manager, and so I tried it.
>> It built and ran without a hitch. I don't know how to use it yet, but it
>> definitely runs.
>>
>> This leads me to believe that the program isn't broken as such, but
>> something is wrong with the build/install.
>>
>> Regards,
>> --
>> Philipp
>>
>> --
>> "Wir stehen selbst enttäuscht und sehn betroffen / Den Vorhang zu
>> und alle Fragen offen." Bertolt Brecht, Der gute Mensch von Sezuan
>>
>> That is weird, I will work on it in a bit and see if I can get it to run.
> Thanks for the pointer
>

Also how do I find somebody that will be my sponsor?