Re: [Mageia-dev] [Mageia-discuss] About Mandriva tools future : Host Mandriva tools on github

2010-10-05 Thread Thierry Vignaud
On 4 October 2010 23:53, Robert Xu rob...@gmail.com wrote: Please do not quote so many useless quotes would it be possible to move drakxtools slowly away from perl gtk? Or at least make perl gtk better (and provide a perlQt implementation?) Because as far as I'm concerned, if any of

Re: [Mageia-dev] [Mageia-discuss] About Mandriva tools future : Host Mandriva tools on github

2010-10-05 Thread Thierry Vignaud
On 5 October 2010 00:09, Liam R E Quin l...@holoweb.net wrote: But rpmdrake ported to Qt would probably freeze up in the same places. It needs more asynchronous operations.  At one point I thought about using dbxml (a small, fast interface to XML documents, with a btree index and dynamic

Re: [Mageia-dev] [Mageia-discuss] About Mandriva tools future : Host Mandriva tools on github

2010-10-04 Thread Thomas Lottmann
Le 01/10/2010 12:38, Fabrice Facorat a écrit : I've been following closely all the Mandriva vs Mageia story. I found it unfortunate that we have to come to this way, but I guess there's a serious fracture between Mandriva and part of its community. We have no choice except to cope with this and

Re: [Mageia-dev] [Mageia-discuss] About Mandriva tools future : Host Mandriva tools on github

2010-10-04 Thread yvan munoz
2010/10/4 Maarten Vanraes maarten.vanr...@gmail.com We need to see what is still functional, what is broken (and so what is to repair), and what is to drop. Eventually, what is to support and repair again (printerdrake?) if possible. For what I know, there are many tools that work :

Re: [Mageia-dev] [Mageia-discuss] About Mandriva tools future : Host Mandriva tools on github

2010-10-04 Thread Maarten Vanraes
Op maandag 04 oktober 2010 21:40:39 schreef Tux99: Quote: yvan munoz wrote on Mon, 04 October 2010 21:33 Drak3d : completly unnecessary today for Compiz (and Metisse seems to be on-stop actually, so no reason to maintain especially for it now) DrakDisk : partitionmanager seems to be not

Re: [Mageia-dev] [Mageia-discuss] About Mandriva tools future : Host Mandriva tools on github

2010-10-04 Thread Robert Xu
On Mon, Oct 4, 2010 at 17:38, Maarten Vanraes maarten.vanr...@gmail.com wrote: Op maandag 04 oktober 2010 21:40:39 schreef Tux99: Quote: yvan munoz wrote on Mon, 04 October 2010 21:33 Drak3d : completly unnecessary today for Compiz (and Metisse seems to be on-stop actually, so no reason

Re: [Mageia-dev] [Mageia-discuss] About Mandriva tools future : Host Mandriva tools on github

2010-10-04 Thread Juan Luis Baptiste
On Mon, Oct 4, 2010 at 4:38 PM, Maarten Vanraes maarten.vanr...@gmail.com wrote: * never used drakvirt, but i hate redhat's tool. You can try Open Xen Manager, IIRC done on python and GTK: http://www.openxenmanager.com/ -- Juancho

Re: [Mageia-dev] [Mageia-discuss] About Mandriva tools future : Host Mandriva tools on github

2010-10-04 Thread Liam R E Quin
On Mon, 2010-10-04 at 17:53 -0400, Robert Xu wrote: [...] would it be possible to move drakxtools slowly away from perl gtk? Or at least make perl gtk better (and provide a perlQt implementation?) In principle there could be a GDK port to use Qt, so the same *drak code would work with both

Re: [Mageia-dev] [Mageia-discuss] About Mandriva tools future : Host Mandriva tools on github

2010-10-01 Thread Thierry Vignaud
On 1 October 2010 12:38, Fabrice Facorat fabrice.faco...@gmail.com wrote: As we know, one of the Mandriva strenght are the Mandriva tools, however Mandriva tools have some issues : - they are written in perl. Sorry for perl dev, but I do still think that perl is harder to understand than