Okay, so as promised I am ready to start on MCC2.
I have had a play with libYui that is in Cauldron, so using C++, to
create a window and buttons.
Ready to get going on the real code, but waiting on the Perl bindings to
hit Cauldron.
I'll start writing out some formal plans, but I have been giving some
thought to the code and am starting to form a general overview of how I
think it could be coded.
I'll report back once the perl binding arrive and I have some code and
plans ready.
Cheers
Steven
On 28/06/12 09:38, Steven Tucker wrote:
Hi Angelo,
great to see you put your hand up.
My position at the moment, is to get through this week at work, then
starting Monday begin work on this project.
The first step is to port the relevant libYui and related libraries
which is what I had planned to work on next week, but if Matteo is
working on this then that will work out great (I am just an apprentice
with only 2 packages to date, so perhaps not the best person for that
job).
To begin with, I planned to make a basic proof of concept Control
Centre, so just simply a copy of the current main window of MCC but
without any functionality, just to see it work across the widget sets.
Then work on a single module to work out some standards and
documentation, how to make it as easy as possible for others to come
along and add a module.
I understand the desire to have everything in the one language (and
the obvious choice is perl due to inertia), however I am not
personally against individual modules being in python/perl/C++, the
reason is that there are people who potentially would add a module but
don't want to use a language they are not familiar with and would only
use for that module and nothing else. So I guess I would like to give
options so that entry to contribution is as easy as it can be. This
all started for me when I looked into writing a module I wanted but
found very little documentation, and realised it would be more work to
make my module available in curses as well at gtk.
As far as other contributors, I only have one willing to dive into
code, but it is very convenient as we work together (We just finished
setting up our new Mageia Cluster and so now are ready for more Mageia
goodness :-P ) so a very small group at the moment, but to be honest,
I think that is probably a good thing in the early stages.
As I said, I have to get through this week at work first, a week of
deadlines, but then I can start writing some more concrete plans, and
start playing with the code.
I'll make contact again in a few days when I am ready to get going.
Cheers
Tuxta
On 28/06/12 08:02, Angelo Naselli wrote:
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Hi,
I'm back to this subject, because, as you probably know, the
proposal[1] has been accepted[2] and has to be merged with mine[3]
and discussed a bit to understand what we have to do and who can help.
Il 13/06/2012 14:35, Steven Tucker ha scritto:
This proposal may be a bit different to the several others you
have seen in that a lot of the heavy lifting has already been done.
The Ui layer is provided by libYui and friends, and the logic is
already there in mcc. With the perl bindings to libYui the effort
is no where near as large as a rewrite, which I imagine the several
other proposals were. I would prefer it all to be written in C++,
but that would be more work than adapting the current perl code, so
you see it's not just pie in the sky, I have actually put some
thought into it.
In a first read i understood the idea was to provide a new gui
abstraction layer, and you told me the suggested libYui library
is written in C++ with some script bindings (one for all perl) and
since I'm not a perl programmer and i know C++ and QT (something on GTk
also) i could help.
So should i assume you want to rewrite all?
Steven, can you please point me and other potential contributors
to your plans?
Planning is also needed to our proposal to be definitely accepted :)
I don't have a lot of spare time, but i will help as much as possible.
Matteo Pasotti is adding libyui to mageia repository so we could
start using it, I do also believe he's going to help us as well :)
Let's start this new adventure...
Cheers,
Angelo
[1] https://wiki.mageia.org/en/Feature:UiAbstraction4mcc
[2] https://wiki.mageia.org/en/FeatureMageia3_Review
[3] https://wiki.mageia.org/en/Feature:DrakXtoolsReview
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