Re: [Geeqie-devel] Geeqie++ fever dreams

2016-12-24 Thread Omari Stephens
On 12/24/2016 05:18 PM, Alexander Antimonov wrote: >> We should have a good expectation of improving life for our users ... > Users are important, but with such move we could improve developers' > life at least. More to the point, code that is easier maintain benefits developers as well as users.

Re: [Geeqie-devel] Geeqie++ fever dreams

2016-12-24 Thread Alexander Antimonov
> We should have a good expectation of improving life for our users ... Users are important, but with such move we could improve developers' life at least. > - Introduce new bugs (because big rewrites always do) Sure, but with C++ port we can also simplify code, and less code - less bugs. Now

Re: [Geeqie-devel] Geeqie++ fever dreams

2016-12-24 Thread Jeff Abrahamson
Is there a case for what users will get if we make these changes? We should have a good expectation of improving life for our users or something similarly worthy if we were to undertake the risk of such a project. The following user effects come to mind, and they aren't overly positive: -

Re: [Geeqie-devel] Geeqie++ fever dreams

2016-12-24 Thread Alexander Antimonov
Hi, I could take part in porting Geeqie to C++1x if it is decided to do so. I've been using different kinds of C++ (98/2003/201x) for more than 10 years. I believe the fundamental thing why C++ is better than C is C++ destructor and all the automatic actions that can be taken in it. It is very

Re: [Geeqie-devel] Geeqie coding standards? Third edition :o)

2016-12-24 Thread Ian Zimmerman
On 2016-12-24 15:00, Klaus Ethgen wrote: > In any case. If we agree about a specific style, it should be > configured via vim modeline in all files. Currently we have the > following: >set shiftwidth=8 softtabstop=0 cindent cinoptions={1s: > It is nothing more wrong than a mismatch of that

Re: [Geeqie-devel] Geeqie++ fever dreams

2016-12-24 Thread Klaus Ethgen
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 Hi Omari, Am Fr den 23. Dez 2016 um 21:42 schrieb Omari Stephens: > It is at least hypothetically possible to port Geeqie to C++11 / GtkMM. > > Ignoring the inevitable ridiculous mountain of work that it would take, > does the end state seem like

Re: [Geeqie-devel] Geeqie coding standards? Third edition :o)

2016-12-24 Thread Klaus Ethgen
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 Hi Omari, Am Fr den 23. Dez 2016 um 19:09 schrieb Omari Stephens: > In #2, I had created a one-liner to compute a line-length histogram our > codebase. I've rerun it and included the results below as [1]. If also > attached a list of