On Sat, Apr 28, 2012 at 8:42 PM, Thomas Kluyver <[email protected]>wrote:
> (Accidentally replied off list, sending to the list now) > > On 25 April 2012 12:27, Jerome Leclanche <[email protected]> wrote: > > I've been working for a while now on a python implementation of xdg > specs, > > it works on both python2 and 3. PyXDG codebase is absolutely awful. Link > > below if anyone's interested. It's not feature-complete yet though... > > Thanks, Jerome. Do you have a feel for: > > - How long will it take to replace the functionality of PyXDG? > - How similar will the interface be? Will adapting code that uses it > just require renaming a few functions, or will it need other code to > be refactored? > > I haven't got a particular interest in maintaining PyXDG myself, but > there are quite a few other packages that depend on it. I think it > would be pretty easy to make PyXDG Python 3 compatible, so I suggest > we make a 0.20 release with just those changes, so that existing code > can keep using it. Then we can encourage people to move to your > interface over time. > > Vincent: > > We can migrate the CVS repo to git, and give you access if you're > interested and nobody else steps up :-) > > Thanks, that sounds like a good idea. I'll start working out what > changes are needed for Python 3. > > Thomas > _______________________________________________ > xdg mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/xdg > Quick offtopic about the recentfiles spec: is it still relevant? I see all distros/DEs using xbel files now, not the type described in the spec, which is why I didn't write a recentfiles module... J. Leclanche
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