Btw i fixed gnome-terminal's key sequences about a year ago Sent from mobile On May 28, 2015 11:57 PM, "Steve Rainwater" <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hi all, > > I'm another long time user of mc. I've used it on Windows, Solaris, > HP-UX, and currently on GNU/Linux (mostly Fedora and CentOS). I use it > daily and find it an indispensable tool. Thanks to everyone who's worked > on it over the years! If mc development is really coming to an end > without new developers, I'm willing to devote a little time to working > on it. I'm a C programmer and have submitted patches here and there to > other projects like Apache and LibXML2. > > I don't really care much about new mc features but I would like to see > work done on fixing bugs. There are mc bugs that have annoyed me for > many years, like the keybinding breakage with with GNOME terminal that > happened four or five years back and still isn't fixed. > > Can someone point me to the developer resources like the source code > repo? I guess a good starting point is check out the current code and > get it compiling. Do new developers need to create an account anywhere > to get access? > > -Steve > > > On Thu, 2015-05-28 at 20:03 +0100, Michal Pirgl wrote: > > Hi > > > > I have been using mc for many years and I would like to thank to > > everyone who spent their time on this project. > > > > I also cannot promise 20hrs in a week but I would like to > > participate/develop as much as I can to help in free time. > > > > Regards, > > Michal > > > > > > > > From: "Mike Smithson" <mdooligan gmail com> > > To: mc-devel gnome org > > Cc: mc gnome org > > Subject: Re: "mc is over!?" > > Date: Thu, 28 May 2015 07:26:22 -0700 > > > > ________________________________ > > > > Bah. Mc is not "over". Things change, that's all. > > > > I've been into mc since I don't know when. The first time I > > used it. Mid/late 90s I'm guessing. I saw how it floundered > > in the 4.6 series. I shrugged and kept tweaking and hacking my > > version. A few years went by and I looked it up again, purely > > out of curiosity. > > > > I was delighted that someone had given it a full work over into > > the 4.8 series. There were some persistent, puzzling, and very > > annoying bugs that are now gone. > > > > Excellent work, gentlemen. Thank you very much. > > > > My list of personal patches went from ~30 down to ~5, where they > > sit now, mostly minor interface tweaks. Mc works, and it works > > very well. If development stagnates for a while, so be it. There > > is actually very little to do. Mc is as close to perfect as > > software gets. There will always be bugs and minor tweaks, and > > that's what needs to be worked on, now and forever. > > > > Yes, mc in its current incarnation is a model from the 1990s. I > > like it that way. I'm not a big fan of C++. I also don't like > > eye candy in a tool that is all about functionality and utility, > > and I very much appreciate a file manager that can operate when > > XWindows cannot, or the system is barely bootable. > > > > It's the perfect size: big enough to be feature-rich and highly > > usable, yet small enough that a single individual can > > (theoretically) get his head around the entire code base. It's > > also fun to hack. > > > > I cannot guarantee 20hrs/week, but I would be very interested to > > work through bug reports and small enhancement requests at my > > own pace, and see what I can get done. > > > > As a last thought for this email: > > > > I suppose what we have here is a complete lack of consensus as to > > the direction to take if we were to move into a 5.0 series. > > My thinking is along the lines of complete modularity: a basic > > interface design (that already exists) and everything else is > > plugins. What if I want to use mc for inventory control? Make a > > plugin to work with SQL instead of filesystem. Perhaps there > > needs to be room for people to experiment with this sort of > > thing. A 4.9beta branch that starts off as mess and arguments but > > slowly gets sorted into something with vision. > > > > That's my 2 cents worth. > > > > Take care, and best wishes for those who are moving on to bigger > > and better things. Thank you for your labors. > > > > > > > > -- > > Peace and Cheer > > _______________________________________________ > > mc-devel mailing list > > https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/mc-devel > > > _______________________________________________ > mc-devel mailing list > https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/mc-devel >
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