On Tue 22 Apr 2008 at 02:02PM, Michal Pryc wrote:
> Dan Price wrote:
> >To rectify this situation, I would like to propose that the GUI source
> >code be colocated with the packaging system in the same source tree.
> >This will allow the development teams to collaborate more effectively,
> >and will allow the IPS team to ensure that we don't break the GUI at an
> >API level. It should also significantly add to the number of developers
> >testing the GUI on a daily basis.
>
> Hello Dan,
> I am really for it, since this would solve many problems we have so far
> and I hope this will improve both GUI and IPS itself.
>
> Currently we do have few bugs logged, which could be gone if we were
> aware of evolving concepts for example the one you have mentioned -
> preferred authorities.
>
> Also I would like to see new features such as ZFS support in the next
> revision of the GUI together with great functionality of adding extra
> GRUB entry and of course other things which are not there (yet).
>
> The other thing is that during development we were missing some bits
> from IPS APIs which could be added to benefit GUI. This would be much
> easier if packagemanager code would be in the pkg tree.
>
> Once again +1 for this proposition.
Michal, my understanding is that you work on the GUI team? It's good
to hear you are in favor of this.
Open question for all involved: What do we need to do at a technical
level to fold these source trees together? Are there any policies
we need to agree upon?
I don't even know where the source for the packagemanager is hosted?
-dp
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