If you're looking for new developers, hostility towards people
volunteering to help is probably not a good approach.
Looks like the project is hosted here (in case any other newbies are
reading):
https://www.midnight-commander.org/
Turns out I already have an account, probably from filing bug reports
over the years. There's some good info there. I checked out a copy of
the code today and got a clean compile. I'm going to be upgrading my box
from Fedora 21 to 22 next week, so it may be a few more days before I
get chance to do any coding.
Is the list of active developers on the above site up to date or is that
the list old developers who announced they were leaving?
-Steve
On Fri, 2015-05-29 at 02:16 +0200, Egmont Koblinger wrote:
You ask for source code repo and stuff? Do apologize to me,it's alot
of shots andd beers speaking of me right now, but if you ask these
questions and couldn't figure out the answers for yourself (I mean:
the answer is straight there on the opening homepage of mc) then i'm
afraid you might not be the kind of person the project's looking for.
Sry
Sent from mobile
On May 28, 2015 11:57 PM, Steve Rainwater srainwa...@ncc.com
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
