From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from euclid.skiles.gatech.edu (list@euclid.skiles.gatech.edu [130.207.146.50]) by coral.primenet.com.au (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id AAA01547 for ; Fri, 23 Aug 1996 00:09:58 +1000 (EST) Received: (from list@localhost) by euclid.skiles.gatech.edu (8.7.3/8.7.3) id KAA19532; Thu, 22 Aug 1996 10:10:49 -0400 (EDT) Resent-Date: Thu, 22 Aug 1996 10:10:49 -0400 (EDT) Date: Thu, 22 Aug 1996 10:07:34 -0400 (EDT) From: "Greg J. Badros" To: Bruce Stephens Cc: zsh-workers@math.gatech.edu Subject: Re: patches to give colorized file listings In-Reply-To: <199608220951.LAA18845@cantecler.math.ruu.nl> Message-Id: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Resent-Message-ID: <"av4n33.0._m4.ef67o"@euclid> Resent-From: zsh-workers@math.gatech.edu X-Mailing-List: archive/latest/2046 X-Loop: zsh-workers@math.gatech.edu Precedence: list Resent-Sender: zsh-workers-request@math.gatech.edu On Thu, 22 Aug 1996, Bruce Stephens wrote: > I like it, but there are a couple of things I don't like. > > The technical one is that it seems to depend on the listtypes option, > so I can either have colours and characters indicating the types, or > characters indicating the types, or nothing. I'd like to be able to > have just colours. This is pretty doable, but since I use file types I attacked that side first to see what other snags came up... few did, so I went forward. I can easily add the code to both parts, or better, factor it out and make it a little bit cleaner, too. > The other one is an IPR problem: it uses the patch that gives the GNU > fileutils package colourized ls (included in the latest fileutils), so > what's the copyright position on this? Personally, I don't care, but I > thought some people wanted to keep zsh from being infected with the > GPL? I looked through the color-ls patch, and have no idea what their copy policy is. My distribution of the patch is a single gz file, so it's hard to say. I've not been following the group long enough to know about a history of GPL infection fright. :-) It's actually not that complicated an ordeal, but I don't believe in reinventing the wheel, plus it'd be confusing if zsh colorized listing worked differently that ls's. Anybody know more about color-ls? > > -- > Bruce Stephens | email: B.Stephens@math.ruu.nl Greg J. Badros gjb@cs.duke.edu