On Mon, Jan 17, 2011 at 06:29:06AM +0800, Sam Spilsbury wrote: > On Mon, Jan 17, 2011 at 3:44 AM, Kristian Lyngstol > <[email protected]> wrote: > > I had expected the glib-work to be merged with mainline by now. This is a > > prerequisite for the a11y-work, since we'd otherwise have to do it using > > the glib-plugin as the test-base, which I'd rather avoid. Specially since > > I'm not the one doing the actual glib/atk stuff, I'm only pitching in to > > set up interfaces and mentor Ale a bit. > > It wasn't ready yet. It changes a lot of how core works and I want to > get it signed off by some of the other key players here. There are > still bugs because it conflicts with the gconf backend for > libcompizconfig in quite a nasty way.
Understandable. Is there any chance it'll create sensible pull queues, though? It'll be hard to review it if it's 6-months worth of work. I've looked at the code and played with it, mind you, and I wasn't really able to generate sensible patch sets - it simply grew too big for conventional patch/merge review. > > The lack of merging is holding up involvement due to the "waiting for the > > next great thing!"-phenomenon... > > The code has always been available - > git://git.compiz.org/git/users/dbo/compiz-with-glib-mainloop. Just > because it hasn't been merged yet, it doesn't mean that we all agree > that core is going to go in this direction, I just don't want to merge > it yet since there are bugs that need to be worked out. I don't think there's any real chance that it wont be pulled in, unless it's prolonged (ie: nomad/object framework/etc). Don't you think it would be easier for everyone to pitch in if we only had one code-base to focus on? It's not my place to push this agenda further, so "just sayin'". > In the meantime I believe the glib plugin should be sufficient to > provide enough of a glib mainloop to do ATK with. We only needed glib > dispatching integrated in core for unity since there was the issue of > timeout accuracy. Ok, understandable. I'll go ahead with the glib-plugin. Hopefully it'll re-kindle my interest enough to help out so we can get the glib-branch merged. > > So my question becomes: what's the merge plan? > > Soon. > > I'm currently inundated with fixing bugs and I really haven't had the > chance to go through the full steps to merge this branch. Excellent. Just for the record: I'll take massive instability in master over prolonged used of two different branches. It's much more inspiring. - Kristian
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