[Mageia-dev] About Mandriva tools future : Host Mandriva tools on github

Sun Oct 3 09:58:54 CEST 2010

2010/10/2 Ahmad Samir <ahmadsamir3891 at gmail.com>:
+> On 2 October 2010 21:50, Fabrice Facorat <fabrice.facorat at gmail.com> wrote:
+>> Le 2 octobre 2010 17:52, Nicolas Lécureuil <neoclust.mageia at gmail.com> a écrit :
+>>>
+>>>
+>>> 2010/10/2 Fabrice Facorat <fabrice.facorat at gmail.com>
+>>>>
+>>>> 2010/10/1 Sinner from the Prairy <sinnerbofh at gmail.com>:
+>>>> > Fabrice Facorat wrote:
+>>
+>>>> > Mandriva tries that, with look'n'feel consistent on MCC, KDE and Gnome.
+>>>> > draketools work on TUI or GUI. They work well.
+>>>>
+>>>> some tools does not work correctly however and are buggy
+>>>>
+>>>
+>>> Better  is to fix them instead of rewrite all.
+>>
+>> you know, when something have been broken for more than 2 years ... at
+>> some point you may think that the best would be to just change it ;-)
+>>
+>>
+>>
+>> --
+>> Close the World, Open the Net
+>> http://www.linux-wizard.net
+>>
+>
+> Specifying what exactly is wrong is an essential issue here:
+> - Just "perl is hard to understand" isn't a problem for users, users
+> don't code it.
+
+but for dev and potential contributor this increase the antry barrier
+for contribution
+
+> - Not being used by other distros is again not a problem, each distro
+> has native tools that no other distros use (as misc said a couple of
+> emails up)
+
+sure. But do Mandriva still have enough man power to maintain so many tools ?
+
+> So, no, I wouldn't throw my old box out the window because if it works
+> even if it's slow, until I buy a new box / can afford a new box.
+> drakxtools work, until a viable alternative, if needed at all, is
+> provided they should be kept.
+
+I do say that we should do a complete analysis of all the mandriva
+tools ( drakxtools, drakwizard, ... ), and have the decision on a
+per-tool basis
+
+-- 
+Close the World, Open the Net
+http://www.linux-wizard.net
+