[TAG] One for Ben

[Ben Okopnik]

On Tue, Jul 13, 2004 at 11:04:28PM -0400, Brian Bilbrey wrote:

Hi, Brian -

First time I've seen you on this list. Welcome!

> While the version you've got via Wayback may indeed be the latest, while
> the mgm pages on Xiph are gone, and all the cvs links and instructions
> are borked, Moaning Goat Meter is available via Subversion from Xiph,
> and/or from the web interface, direct link:
> 
> http://svn.xiph.org/tags/mgm-release-1-1/mgm/
> 
> It's not emerge-able in Gentoo, but Debian provides:
> 
> http://packages.debian.org/stable/admin/mgm
> 
> I'm getting Perl errors about "width". More digging tomorrow.
 
Looks like the author forgot to put dashes in front of the switch names
(e.g., the option in Tk::Label is "-width", not "width", and there are a
number of other instances of this.) IIRC, this used to not matter much;
I guess the Tk::* module maintainer tightened up on the rules. For those
who are interested, the tarball containing the three fixed files is at
<http://okopnik.freeshell.org/misc/mgm-fix.tgz>; I've already filed the
bug with Debian and sent the diff.

There's also an "mgm-doc" package, which is reputed to have the "HTML
documentation" for MGM - and contains the original website. Is that
cool, or what?

> .brian

Hmm, dot-brian. Is that a new TLD, a CSS class, or a way of hiding
yourself in the TAG directory? Inquiring minds want to know. :)


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