Re: Re: [Ranger-users] Hello and thanks

[David Woodfall]

On (02:50 27/04/10), Roman Z. <address@hidden> put forth the proposition:
> > I've just started to use ranger and can already see that I'm going to
> > get on with it very well. It's a great app. I have never really got on
> > with mc at all, for all its popularity, and find ranger just so much
> > more natural to move around - but I guess most of us vim users feel
> > the same way :)
> >
> > I've just submitted a SlackBuild for ranger to slackbuilds.org and will
> > become the slackbuild maintainer for it. It's not available yet (still
> > in pending) but any slackware users here that want a slackbuild of a
> > git snapshot:
> >
> > http://www.dawoodfall.net/slackbuilds/13.0/ranger/
>
> Ah, thanks man.  How did you find out about ranger, if I may ask?  It's
> the First time I hear of someone using it outside of the Arch Linux
> community.

Linux Today had a link to this:

http://kmandla.wordpress.com/2010/04/23/something-old-something-new-console-file-managers/

> > (I hope it's ok for me to host a git snapshot source archive on my
> > personal site for this?)
>
> Of course.  It would be good to know when or how often you're going to
> make snapshots.  Ranger has no real release cycle and each snapshot is
> more or less experimental...  I could ensure that you get the less
> experimental ones.  Hmm, or just use the "stable" branch.

I will probably be using 1.0.5 when it is released. I will keep to
stable releases as they become available. The reason for me using a
snapshot is support for local options.py etc. which 1.0.4 doesn't seem
to do.


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