From kfm-devel Thu May 20 23:06:41 1999 From: Nicolas Brodu Date: Thu, 20 May 1999 23:06:41 +0000 To: kfm-devel Subject: Re: KFM Patch Collection Page X-MARC-Message: https://marc.info/?l=kfm-devel&m=92724108924518 On Fri, 21 May 1999, David Faure wrote : >On Fri, May 21, 1999 at 12:22:34AM +0200, Nicolas Brodu wrote: >> On Thu, 20 May 1999, Dawit Alemayehu wrote : >> > >> >P.S. To get CVS access, you asked me to supply you with username and >> > an encrypted password. I have a stupid question, as I have not done >> > it before, what would I use to generate the encrypted password ??? ;-) >> >> You can either : >> >> . change your password using passwd >> . look at /etc/passwd, copy the encrypted form >> . don't forget to revert to your original password with passwd ! >> But shadow or NIS can trouble this. >> >> Or take the output of : >> >> $ perl -e 'print crypt "", ""; print "\n";' >> >> where is two random caracters. > >Great, I learned something today ! >Merci :) You're welcome, I didn't know it myself before reading it in a FAQ :-) >> BTW, I could probably patch KFM to support SMB, (even begun to do it some >> time ago) but I wonder if this is really worth it, now that I can work >> on KDE 2. >> >> Opinion ? >My opinion is that it isn't worth it. >The patches are there to fix bugs. > >If you start implementing features, then you'll have to maintain the patches >for it, and have patches to fix bugs in the patches, ... this is awful to maintain. >And wasted time. Better focus on KDE 2. > >Everybody says KDE 2 is for a long time in the future, but if we all work on it, it won't >be that long before it's ready. >And 1.9 (no idea why Waldo named it 1.89 :)) is the way to get this code out >even before it's not as much stable as 1.1.1. >So brave users will be able to test it :) That's the best way to do it of course. Maybe we should release a 1.889 for even braver users (just joking) ! -------------------------------- Nicolas Brodu, brodu@iie.cnam.fr Eleve-Ingenieur 2eme annee (Institut d'Informatique d'Entreprise) http://www-eleves.iie.cnam.fr/brodu (smblib) KDE developer, brodu@kde.org http://www.kde.org, Color outside the lines !