Hi,

> I thought the GUI is written on gtk+2 and C
> (apt-cache depends netman-gui), why actually
> Object Pascal?

The reason is I have several years of experience using Delphi (Object)
Pascal to create GUI programs and very little experience programming
GUI programs using other languages.

> obj and bin directories come up in backend folder,
> and as suggested Makefile in the directory should also
> be able to create these folders, if I understand everything
> right.

The problem with this is there are contradicting opinions in this
email thread and other similar email threads as to this requirement.
This is leaving me in a situation where I do not know what I should
do.

Edward

On 20/11/2015, Mitt Green <mitt_green@???> wrote:
> ‎Look for my first message in the thread, I describe
> my experience with it there, I cc'ed you.
>
> I see NETMAN.HELP, I mean it should be named README
> and contain installation info as well.
>
> obj and bin directories come up in backend folder,
> and as suggested Makefile in the directory should also
> be able to create these folders, if I understand everything
> right.
>
> I thought the GUI is written on gtk+2 and C
> (apt-cache depends netman-gui), why actually
> Object Pascal?
>
> Mitt
>
> --------------------------------------------------------------------------‎
>
>   Original Message
>
> Hi,
>
> The help plain text file is NETMAN.HELP and is found under netman's
> root directory. If I need to add anything to NETMAN.HELP, please reply
> so that I can add the required information.
>
> What is wrong with line 259? Can you post what any relevant error messages?
>
> Regarding adding an obj and bin directories, there is a complication
> as netman is two projects in one: GUI frontend written in Lazarus
> Object Pascal and the backend written in C. I would appreciate if more
> direction is given to me in this regard.
>
> Edward
>
>
>
> On 20/11/2015, Mitt Green <mitt_green@???> wrote:
>> This discussion went somewhere. Here's my
>> summary:
>>
>> 1. netman can't be used yet because
>>      - source code lacks bin and obj folders;
>>      - something has to be done in backend.c,
>>     in particular on line 259;
>>      - packages built from the source
>>     don't work either;
>>      - ‎lack of man page;
>>      - the actual docs should be named README.
>>
>> 2. I am interested in netman; there are no real
>> lightweight network managers, even more, nothing
>> written with gtk+2.
>>
>> 3. Things are going slowly and nothing had been
>> decided yet as far as I see. Well, except for eliminating
>> systemd. The question about adoption or abortion
>> came up a bit early.
>>
>> Please consider my two cents,
>>
>> Mitt
>>
>