[Savannah-hackers-public] Re: [Savannah-users] project approval

[Karl Berry]

(Switching to sv-hackers-public; hackers, see orig msg below.)

Hi LynX,

      As you can see this program works only on Windows and it did not comply
      with "My project runs primarily on a completely free OS". 

Indeed.  Although I appreciate the efforts and the extension of Emacs,
my initial reaction is to say that no independent project on savannah
should be Windows-only.

However, I don't know if there is precedent for accepting similar
"Windows extensions of free software" as sv projects.

What do others think?

Thanks,
Karl

Date: Tue, 22 Feb 2011 20:05:30 +0200
From: LynX <address@hidden>
To: address@hidden
Subject: [Savannah-users] project approval

  Hello,

  I have a little question, and would be grateful if you answer me. I want
  to submit following project:

  PropertiesWindow is a command-line program which shows Windows "File
  Properties" dialog box for specified file or directory.
  This program can be used as a part of extensions for GNU Emacs Win32
  dired mode.
  Written on C++ using WinAPI

  As you can see this program works only on Windows and it did not comply
  with "My project runs primarily on a completely free OS". But I provide
  it with aim to be used like extension of dired in Gnu Emacs on Windows.

  So my question is, can I submit it or not?

  Binary and src of it you can find on
  http://savannah.gnu.org/submissions_uploads/PropertiesWindow.tar.gz

  Thank you,
  LX

  P.S. Also I have written another program which displays list of Windows
  hard drives and it also for Gnu Emacs on Windows.