On Wednesday 04 May 2005 20:41, Yasushi Saito wrote: > On 5/3/05, David Allouche <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Nothing has happened to octopy for a very long time (more than one > > year), I think the original author has lost interest. If you feel up > > to it, you could probably adopt it. > > That's right. I'm not actively using tla/baz these days, much less > octopy.. So Rene, if you can take over the project, that'll be very > cool. > > yaz
It's a bit sad to read that you don't use tla and octopy any more,
especially since you have done the great job of creating octopy. I also
think every developer should at least use tla/baz :)
OK, I'll give taking it over a try. Octopy is far too cool to be left
unmaintained. I use it a lot and - over time - will continue to add my
little improvements.
Of course, this maintainership thing leads to a shift in perspective as
well; from: what do _I_ think should be improved/added/refactored/... (so
I can use it better, for my personal needs) to: what do _other users_
think about octopy (especially because I think that a great GUI is a great
way to boost the image of tla/baz - or, put the other way around: a bad
GUI makes tla/baz look bad as well).
So, my plan is to keep using and improving octopy for my personal tla needs
but to also discuss and implement big under-the-hood things like: changing
the python tla bindings if desireable and/or necessary, or adding baz
support, etc.
Actually, I am also especially interested in getting feedback about octopy
like "I'd really like to use it, BUT [lack-of-feature/usability/...]".
For instance, the lack of a nested tree view was the main reason I stopped
using octopy for a long time.
Hey, and if some of you happen to have some patches: bring them on !!!
Well, to sum this up: I think there's a lot of potential in a cool and
usable GUI such as octopy. I'm open to all sorts of suggestions. I'll
keep suggesting things to myself as well :) At least this should lead to
constant improvements and perhaps interesting new features.
-Rene
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