Re: [Review - Not yet] aterm-0.4.2-1 - vt102 terminal emulator, based on rxvt

[Igor Pechtchanski <pechtcha at cs dot nyu dot edu>]

On Thu, 4 Mar 2004, Harold L Hunt II wrote:

> Jari,
>
> You have a dependency in setup.hint on 'cygipc2'.  There is no such
> package, it is called 'cygipc'.
>
> You also have a dependency on 'xfree86-base'.  Note that the package
> name is 'XFree86-base'.  This should be fixed for consistency.
>
> Did you actually try to use this package?  I ran it from and xterm and
> it didn't echo typed characters and printed escape sequences for the
> shell prompt instead of readable characters.  It performed similarly
> from a command prompt.
>
> Launching from both an xterm and from the command prompt resulted in
> aterm using 100% of the CPU.
>
> Unless you tested this and these are minor and easily fixable problems,
> then I am going to actually ask you to revoke you ITP since there is no
> way that this package can be included with the above shell and infinite
> loop problems.
>
> Harold

Harold,

If aterm is based on rxvt, it probably runs /bin/sh rather than /bin/bash
(which would explain the escape sequence problem above).  The solution for
rxvt (which should also help here) is to run "rxvt -e bash".

I agree that the other problems are pretty much showstoppers.  It would
have helped if you mentioned at least the version of Windows that you
tried it on, though (I assume you have the latest packages installed).
	Igor
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