Re: Further Midnight Commander development

2009-02-21 Thread Enrico Weigelt
* Miguel de Icaza mig...@novell.com schrieb: The Midnight Commander development community is small and it is in my opinion a step backwards to fragment it at this point. Funny that you mention this, as it was *YOU* who forced another fork ;-o cu --

Re: Re[2]: Further Midnight Commander development

2009-02-21 Thread Enrico Weigelt
* Miguel de Icaza mig...@novell.com schrieb: I agree with Pavel here. mc-dev has been for the most part dormant, and some terrible decisions (like that whole mhl fiasco) could have been avoided. I wouldn't call it fascio, rather a good lection that even the OSS world isn't free of

Re: Further Midnight Commander development

2009-02-21 Thread Enrico Weigelt
* Miguel de Icaza mig...@novell.com schrieb: Hi, Your approach to development is my way or the high way. The consensus is that glib should stay, and even your concern about using glib was addressed by pointing you to eglib and I even ported mc and posted a patch to use eglib. First of

Re: Re[2]: Further Midnight Commander development

2009-02-21 Thread Enrico Weigelt
* Enrico Weigelt weig...@metux.de schrieb: oh, forgot the link ;-o *1) git://git.metux.de/free-mc.git cu -- - Enrico Weigelt== metux IT service - http://www.metux.de/

Re: Re[2]: Further Midnight Commander development

2009-02-21 Thread Miguel de Icaza
Hello, It was *YOU* destroyed that by climbing out of your deep dark tomb and behaving like the old king coming back which everyone has to submit to. It was you caused a lot of wasting resources (not just computer's but also human's) for your personal crusade against a lot of things we've done

Re: Further Midnight Commander development

2009-02-21 Thread Miguel de Icaza
Hello, You went light on the details, other than saying 'you totally' repeatedly. * you totally ignored recommendation for defering this decision until eglib becomes production-ready It is very simple. The majority of people to not have a problem with glib, and the size is not an issue.

Re: Re[2]: Further Midnight Commander development

2009-02-21 Thread Miguel de Icaza
*1) git://git.metux.de/free-mc.git Thanks for the link. I guess we can go and pick any good changes from there and merge them into mc now. Miguel. ___ Mc-devel mailing list http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/mc-devel

Re: Further Midnight Commander development

2009-02-16 Thread Denys Vlasenko
On Fri, Feb 13, 2009 at 7:20 PM, Pavel Tsekov ptse...@gmx.net wrote: You might not be aware but I am (still) one of the two official MC maintainers. De jure, maybe you are. De facto, the project is an orphan. How many more times do I need to submit my patches to get your attention? How many

Re[2]: Further Midnight Commander development

2009-02-16 Thread Pavel Tsekov
Hello Denys, Monday, February 16, 2009, 3:15:45 PM, you wrote: On Fri, Feb 13, 2009 at 7:20 PM, Pavel Tsekov ptse...@gmx.net wrote: You might not be aware but I am (still) one of the two official MC maintainers. De jure, maybe you are. De facto, the project is an orphan. How many more

Re: Re[2]: Further Midnight Commander development

2009-02-16 Thread Denys Vlasenko
On Mon, Feb 16, 2009 at 3:02 PM, Pavel Tsekov ptse...@gmx.net wrote: Hello Denys, Monday, February 16, 2009, 3:15:45 PM, you wrote: On Fri, Feb 13, 2009 at 7:20 PM, Pavel Tsekov ptse...@gmx.net wrote: You might not be aware but I am (still) one of the two official MC maintainers. De jure,

Re: Re[2]: Further Midnight Commander development

2009-02-16 Thread Yury V. Zaytsev
Hi Denys, Would you please cool down a little bit? Don't you think we can resolve this peacefully w/o further mutual accusations, don't we? I think that both parties will benefit from this... It's crystal clear that current development model desperately needs a change. But Pavel has some valid

Re: Further Midnight Commander development

2009-02-16 Thread Miguel de Icaza
Hello, It is very common in every project I participate to use different mailing list for these different goals: users, developer discussion, bug tracking and commits. It makes it easier to filter, and it allows for people that care about one particular area to focus on that area.

Re: Re[2]: Further Midnight Commander development

2009-02-16 Thread Miguel de Icaza
Hello, I am not really unavailable. In fact if someone bothered to ping me personally I would have noticed immediately. The list traffic was stalled for quite some time and I haven't been reading it on a regular basis for a while so I missed the interesting part. I agree with Pavel here.

Re: Further Midnight Commander development

2009-02-16 Thread Denys Vlasenko
On Monday 16 February 2009 20:17, Pavel Tsekov wrote: So you want to bitch... I really cannot help you with that. How much did I bitch in these years while the patch was lying around? URL please. In case you did not notice, I want to code. I want to help MC to improve and sligtly more than

Re: Further Midnight Commander development

2009-02-14 Thread Oswald Buddenhagen
On Fri, Feb 13, 2009 at 08:20:29PM +0200, Pavel Tsekov wrote: You don't become a project member and developer by just waiting for the right moment, appearing on the scene and taking over of everything. would you bet? you may be the best maintainer on earth (you aren't, but wth), but by being

Re: Further Midnight Commander development

2009-02-14 Thread Patrick Winnertz
Hey, to the new ones: get the trac vs. the mailinglist thing sorted. the current situation practically excludes everyone who cannot be bothered to poll your trac often enough, which basically is everyone who has some real experience (and thus has a day job, etc.). The plan is to move the trac

Re: Further Midnight Commander development

2009-02-14 Thread Oswald Buddenhagen
On Sat, Feb 14, 2009 at 04:38:31PM +0100, Patrick Winnertz wrote: to the new ones: get the trac vs. the mailinglist thing sorted. The plan is to move the trac mails together with git commit messages to an own mailinglist. but you want to continue using mc-devel as well? i don't think the

Re: Further Midnight Commander development

2009-02-14 Thread Patrick Winnertz
Am Samstag 14 Februar 2009 17:21:22 schrieb Oswald Buddenhagen: On Sat, Feb 14, 2009 at 04:38:31PM +0100, Patrick Winnertz wrote: to the new ones: get the trac vs. the mailinglist thing sorted. The plan is to move the trac mails together with git commit messages to an own mailinglist.

Re: Further Midnight Commander development

2009-02-14 Thread Oswald Buddenhagen
On Sat, Feb 14, 2009 at 05:43:55PM +0100, Patrick Winnertz wrote: Well.. I would like to have some place to discuss everything. of course. If this is too much it would be worth to move this to a separate mailinglist. yes - *if*. but that's not going to be the case. i cannot imagine that

Re[2]: Further Midnight Commander development

2009-02-14 Thread Pavel Tsekov
Hello Oswald, Saturday, February 14, 2009, 4:47:44 PM, you wrote: On Fri, Feb 13, 2009 at 08:20:29PM +0200, Pavel Tsekov wrote: You don't become a project member and developer by just waiting for the right moment, appearing on the scene and taking over of everything. would you bet? Yes,

Re: Further Midnight Commander development

2009-02-13 Thread Pavel Tsekov
Hello Slava, You might not be aware but I am (still) one of the two official MC maintainers. Thursday, December 18, 2008, 2:23:07 AM, you wrote: Hello, dear developers! It is no secret that the recent console manager Midnight Commander stopped in its development. We do not know the reasons

Re: Further Midnight Commander development

2009-02-13 Thread Miguel de Icaza
Hello, I agree with the sentiments expressed by Pavel Tsekov. If you guys have collected a new set of patches to Midnight Commander, let us get those patches posted to the tracking software in midnight-commander.org and discuss those changes as a community. Pavel is right that many

Re: Further Midnight Commander development

2009-01-03 Thread Enrico Weigelt
* Slava Zanko slavaza...@gmail.com schrieb: Hi, you meant: mcvfs = model ? No. model = any data source. mcvfs - one of sources for mc. Which other datasources do you have in mind ? yeah, even sockets: cat tcp://somehost:port/ (I'll add this to libmvfs in the next days ...) Cool.

Re: Further Midnight Commander development

2008-12-31 Thread Enrico Weigelt
* Slava Zanko slavaza...@gmail.com schrieb: Hi, Is it a good idea to make git-branch Stable based on 4.6.1 and git-branch Current based of the current cvs-code (4.6.2-pre1)? I'd really suggest forking the stable tree on 4.6.1 release and let it be the rc for 4.6.2, then step by step merge

Re: Further Midnight Commander development

2008-12-30 Thread Patrick Winnertz
Am Montag 29 Dezember 2008 18:33:44 schrieb Miguel de Icaza: Hellom IMHO we should start with the latest stable release (4.6.1 ?) and apply all the vendor/distro patches floating around step by step (*1). Once that's done, we should make a new official release very soon. I agree with

Re: Further Midnight Commander development

2008-12-29 Thread Slava Zanko
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Enrico Weigelt wrote: * Slava Zanko slavaza...@gmail.com schrieb: Hi, huh, I'm not sure whether mvc fits in here. mcvfs - VIEW; core (signal handling, User events etc) - CONTROLLER, slang,mcslang,ncurses - VIEWs.. Why not? :) you meant: mcvfs

Re: Further Midnight Commander development

2008-12-29 Thread Miguel de Icaza
Hellom IMHO we should start with the latest stable release (4.6.1 ?) and apply all the vendor/distro patches floating around step by step (*1). Once that's done, we should make a new official release very soon. I agree with this approach, we should start by reviewing those patches as well,

Re: Further Midnight Commander development

2008-12-29 Thread Marco Ciampa
On Mon, Dec 29, 2008 at 12:33:44PM -0500, Miguel de Icaza wrote: Hellom IMHO we should start with the latest stable release (4.6.1 ?) and apply all the vendor/distro patches floating around step by step (*1). Once that's done, we should make a new official release very soon. I agree

Re: Further Midnight Commander development

2008-12-29 Thread Enrico Weigelt
* Roland Illig roland.il...@gmx.de schrieb: Hi, I'd like to. If there is some more action in mc development (like in 2005, when it was great fun), I'm definitely willing to invest some time into it. :) Maybe we even get all the different UTF-8 patches incorporated into mc. If that's

Re: Further Midnight Commander development

2008-12-28 Thread Slava Zanko
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Enrico Weigelt wrote: huh, I'm not sure whether mvc fits in here. mcvfs - VIEW; core (signal handling, User events etc) - CONTROLLER, slang,mcslang,ncurses - VIEWs.. Why not? :) Well, if we say everything's a file and the model is the vfs

Re: Further Midnight Commander development

2008-12-28 Thread Enrico Weigelt
* Slava Zanko slavaza...@gmail.com schrieb: Hi, huh, I'm not sure whether mvc fits in here. mcvfs - VIEW; core (signal handling, User events etc) - CONTROLLER, slang,mcslang,ncurses - VIEWs.. Why not? :) you meant: mcvfs = model ? Well, if we say everything's a file and the model is

Re: Further Midnight Commander development

2008-12-27 Thread Slava Zanko
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Enrico Weigelt wrote: I propose to establish two branches: stable and current (in git, of course). Stable branch will contain all founded patches (Fedora, Debian/Ubuntu, Gentoo,...), new ideas and features. The stable branch will provide the

Re: Further Midnight Commander development

2008-12-27 Thread Enrico Weigelt
* Slava Zanko slavaza...@gmail.com schrieb: Hi, Absolutly yes. Maintainers of distros should not include any patches of security in packages that are based on the stable branch. If any patch of security or stability is included into package (not in repro) - our work is a bad. Glad you

Re: Further Midnight Commander development

2008-12-26 Thread Slava Zanko
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Enrico Weigelt wrote: I think the most important is to have official tree as global reference and release point. Everyone else should work relative to the lastest official release and submit his patches against it. These patches should go to

Re: Further Midnight Commander development

2008-12-26 Thread Slava Zanko
Enrico Weigelt wrote: Ops... sorry my mistake: - - Stable branch will contain all founded patches (Fedora, Debian/Ubuntu, - - Current branch will contain all founded patches (Fedora, Debian/Ubuntu, Gentoo,...), new ideas and features. Fixed. :) ___

Re: Further Midnight Commander development

2008-12-26 Thread Enrico Weigelt
* Slava Zanko slavaza...@gmail.com schrieb: Hi, I propose to establish two branches: stable and current (in git, of course). Stable branch will contain all founded patches (Fedora, Debian/Ubuntu, Gentoo,...), new ideas and features. The stable branch will provide the solutions that were

Re: Further Midnight Commander development

2008-12-25 Thread Enrico Weigelt
Hi folks, I think the most important is to have official tree as global reference and release point. Everyone else should work relative to the lastest official release and submit his patches against it. These patches should go to this list, be discussed here and then, if considered good, be

Re: Further Midnight Commander development

2008-12-23 Thread Patrick Winnertz
Am Monday 22 December 2008 21:02:21 schrieben Sie: Patrick Winnertz wrote: If yes I'll set up a trac on my private server until I find a better solution. If this repro is ready I'll ping you and we can start to migrate you patches into the git repro. Is this okay for you (and the rest of

Re: Further Midnight Commander development

2008-12-23 Thread Denys Vlasenko
2008/12/23 Patrick Winnertz win...@debian.org: Am Monday 22 December 2008 21:02:21 schrieben Sie: Patrick Winnertz wrote: If yes I'll set up a trac on my private server until I find a better solution. If this repro is ready I'll ping you and we can start to migrate you patches into the git

Re: Further Midnight Commander development

2008-12-23 Thread Patrick Winnertz
Hey, [removed some private stuff] 1) why not asking for git on savannah? As trac needs a local git. 2) is it mc on savannah doomed? Well.. the bugtracker there is ugly.. there is too much spam, cvs is very ancient, git is so much better. 3) Why not officially close it? My intention is to set

Re: Further Midnight Commander development

2008-12-22 Thread Patrick Winnertz
Am Friday 19 December 2008 05:28:56 schrieben Sie: Hello, Miguel! Quoting Miguel de Icaza mig...@ximian.com: I would personally like to see mc move to git, there are nice hosting services like github, it is easy to fork and it is easy to review patches from third parties. I'm

Re: Further Midnight Commander development

2008-12-22 Thread Slava Zanko
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Patrick Winnertz wrote: It's updated automatically. It can be just cloned for further development. I took care to provide full names of all committers ever committing anything to the mc repository. Yes.. this would be great. Would it be

Re: Further Midnight Commander development

2008-12-22 Thread Patrick Winnertz
Many patches(Fedora, debian) applied in one revision at start of project, sorry. Many own patches is relative to previous patches. Is it possible to migrate? Gm... Nothing is impossible :) But this will require much effort and time. Well,, this should be quite easy. Have a look on the

Re: Further Midnight Commander development

2008-12-22 Thread Slava Zanko
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Patrick Winnertz wrote: Well,, this should be quite easy. Have a look on the git-svn tool. You should be able to create a git checkout from your svn stuff.. After this it's very easy to pick each commit and apply it on the new git repro. This

Re: Further Midnight Commander development

2008-12-22 Thread Slava Zanko
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Patrick Winnertz wrote: If yes I'll set up a trac on my private server until I find a better solution. If this repro is ready I'll ping you and we can start to migrate you patches into the git repro. Is this okay for you (and the rest of the

Re: Further Midnight Commander development

2008-12-18 Thread Marco Ciampa
On Thu, Dec 18, 2008 at 08:26:17AM +0100, Patrick Winnertz wrote: Am Thursday 18 December 2008 07:39:30 schrieben Sie: Slava Zanko said: (by the date of Thu, 18 Dec 2008 02:23:07 +0200) Alex Custov Andrew Savchenko Denis Frolov Dmitry Korzhevin Pavel Vasil'ev Slava Zanko

Re: Further Midnight Commander development

2008-12-18 Thread Patrick Winnertz
Well, As I see there are plenty of people who would like to work further on mc, it would be very sad if these people will work on different versions, as this is ineffective, and tend to end in even more dead projects. My suggestion would be to have at first a look who wants to help to develop

Re: Further Midnight Commander development

2008-12-18 Thread Slava Zanko
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Patrick Winnertz wrote: Well, As I see there are plenty of people who would like to work further on mc, it would be very sad if these people will work on different versions, as this is ineffective, and tend to end in even more dead projects.

Re: Further Midnight Commander development

2008-12-18 Thread Roland Illig
Patrick Winnertz schrieb: So: At first the people who would like to work on mc should send a: I would like to do something. I'd like to. If there is some more action in mc development (like in 2005, when it was great fun), I'm definitely willing to invest some time into it. Maybe we even get

Re: Further Midnight Commander development

2008-12-18 Thread Miguel de Icaza
Hello, My suggestion would be to have at first a look who wants to help to develop mc further and then where to do this. Agreed, this initial post is light on the details as to what the changes are, ChangeLog entries and the documentation. The site is in Russian which does not help very

Re: Further Midnight Commander development

2008-12-18 Thread Pavel Roskin
Hello, Miguel! Quoting Miguel de Icaza mig...@ximian.com: I would personally like to see mc move to git, there are nice hosting services like github, it is easy to fork and it is easy to review patches from third parties. I'm maintaining a git mirror of the mc repository:

Further Midnight Commander development

2008-12-17 Thread Slava Zanko
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hello, dear developers! It is no secret that the recent console manager Midnight Commander stopped in its development. We do not know the reasons why this is happening, but we badly want to see its further development. In fact, the Midnight Commander

Re: Further Midnight Commander development

2008-12-17 Thread Janek Kozicki
Slava Zanko said: (by the date of Thu, 18 Dec 2008 02:23:07 +0200) Alex Custov Andrew Savchenko Denis Frolov Dmitry Korzhevin Pavel Vasil'ev Slava Zanko Isn't Patrick Winnertz part of your newly formed development team? I guess that he wants to be! He just asked for write access to

Re: Further Midnight Commander development

2008-12-17 Thread Patrick Winnertz
Am Thursday 18 December 2008 07:39:30 schrieben Sie: Slava Zanko said: (by the date of Thu, 18 Dec 2008 02:23:07 +0200) Alex Custov Andrew Savchenko Denis Frolov Dmitry Korzhevin Pavel Vasil'ev Slava Zanko Isn't Patrick Winnertz part of your newly formed development team? I