Developers of Sympa

[Daniel Pittman <address@concealed>]

On Fri, 26 Oct 2001, Olivier Salaun wrote:
> Jérôme Marant wrote:
> 
>>   Yet another bug report I've just received.
> 
>> Package: sympa
>> Version: 3.2.1-3
>> Severity: important
>> 
>> The mhonarc resource file that comes with sympa, and that is used for
>> creating the HTML archives, has a couple of very major flaws as
>> shipped:
>> 
>> The next/previous buttons in the generated HTML are *only*
>> implemented as images, using an IMG tag. This is to "/icons/left.gif"
>> and "/icons/right.gif"
> 
> I've added the ALTs to the CVS version :
>
http://listes.cru.fr/cgi-bin/cvsweb.cgi/sympa/src/etc/mhonarc-ressources

Ah, thank you. That is very helpful. :)

>> which *do not exist* in the sympa (or wwsympa) packages at all.
>> 
>> Worse, there is nothing that configures /icons by default in the
>> package for the webserver software, nor is there any note about this.
> 
> Sympa uses Apache icons, except its own logo that is installed. We
> supposed that /icons/left.gif, icons/right.gif,... were available on
> every Apache server. Aren't they ?

On every Apache server, yes. I use the Roxen Webserver[1], so didn't
have the Apache icons sitting around. 

I will solve this by finding my own icons, although it may be worth
putting a brief note about that somewhere into the documentation.

        Daniel

Footnotes: 
[1]  <http://www.roxen.com/>

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