Why not just work on it and then when it's ready have it added to e.org repo???
Access takes a long time and understandably so. On Sun, May 14, 2017 at 3:47 PM, William L. Thomson Jr. <wlt...@o-sinc.com> wrote: > On Sun, 14 May 2017 11:47:34 +0000 > Andrew Williams <a...@andywilliams.me> wrote: > > > Hi guys, > > > > I think a little context may help here - please take a breath and > > consider each others motivation before contradicting further. > > > > William, > > EFL is intended as a cross-platform solution. Apps built with it > > should work on different platforms and front ends without > > re-compiling. > > I understand. This is also not my code. I did not write it. I am trying > to adapt it and bugs have been open for years on the matter. > > > We are moving to binary distribution (at some point, > > some how) (see previous conference topics on "Marrakesh") so having > > binaries for each configuration option is probably not maintainable. > > I do not run a binary distribution to begin with. It usually is up to > package maintainers to ensure their package works for a given platform. > > I am only producing binaries because cmake allows such easily. That was > not the case before and I can stop and/or release different ones if > needed to support different configurations. > > I already make varying binaries for my Gentoo servers and systems, > which I have a few. I am already making binaries with different > options, etc. > > > It is clear that we have some projects that are not maintained and > > really appreciate any help we can get to move things forward. However > > cloning a repo to an alternative remote does not make that official. > > It does if it becomes a fork. Which I have no problems with and said > that may be an option from the start. Though I had hoped to avoid such. > > > The out of date codebase in git.enlightenment.org is still the > > official repo - and until we manage to figure a permanent change > > (access or relocation) it remains the responsibility of the forker to > > pull any upstream changes. This is not meant to be onerous but it's > > pretty much how things are. > > Yes and everyone I talked to about ecrire before touching that dead > code, said that it was a dead project. Its funny how people want to > get all official over a dead project that no one cared about till I > touched it. Common open source, no one cares till you do then everyone > has an opinion, and becomes back seat drivers. > > While I am scratching MY own itches. That my intention is to give back > to others. Means I am willing to spend MY time on things that matter to > others not myself. But I have no need or requirement. I can just do > things for my needs, fork, etc. > > The beauty of open source. Which usually what ever code base is active, > doing releases, etc. That is considered official. This happens in > legacy code bases all the time. Someone else comes along, pickups the > code, and they become the new official source. > > I do not need to be on list. I do not need to be trying to give back, > insulted, etc. I can continue with my development efforts 100% on the > outside. Seems most of the projects few EFL that exist are that way. > I packaged quite allot of stuff that was NOT on enlightenment.org. > I guess that stuff isn't official either... :) > > -- > William L. Thomson Jr. > > ------------------------------------------------------------ > ------------------ > Check out the vibrant tech community on one of the world's most > engaging tech sites, Slashdot.org! http://sdm.link/slashdot > _______________________________________________ > enlightenment-devel mailing list > enlightenment-devel@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/enlightenment-devel > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Check out the vibrant tech community on one of the world's most engaging tech sites, Slashdot.org! http://sdm.link/slashdot _______________________________________________ enlightenment-devel mailing list enlightenment-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/enlightenment-devel
