[Mageia-dev] UiAbstraction4mcc feature proposal

Mon Jul 2 16:09:17 CEST 2012

On Mon, 02 Jul 2012, Angelo Naselli wrote:
+
+> -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-----
+> Hash: SHA1
+> 
+> Hi,
+> Il 02/07/2012 04:24, Steven Tucker ha scritto:
+> > I have had a play with libYui that is in Cauldron, so using C++,
+> > to create a window and buttons. Ready to get going on the real
+> > code, but waiting on the Perl bindings to hit Cauldron.
+> 
+> A little question here, libyui on sourceforge seems to be stopped at
+> release 2.21.1 -about one year ago- and OpenSouse ships 2.21.4 but
+> they call it as yast2-XXX, git repository does not have any way to
+> build from source but using y2tool, i have a opensouse vm, so i could
+> try to start from there, but is that the right way to move?
+> I mean every time we have a new version we should have an opnesuse
+> machine, or better we should  understand if libyui is dead?
+
+It seems their intent is to make this library completly independent of
+Suse technologies :
+http://nbprashanth.wordpress.com/2011/08/18/libyui-ported/
+
+So it should build on non-OpenSUSE machine, and if it's not the case you
+can probably ask them for help.
+
+And their git repositories on github seems to have the latest versions
+tagged :
+https://github.com/libyui
+
+