[Mageia-dev] UiAbstraction4mcc feature proposal

Fri Jul 6 03:44:55 CEST 2012

Hi,
+>> Hi,
+>>
+>> Documentation team is planning to write the currently missing help
+>> for MCC and all the tools in it. We don't have a clue whether the
+>> above feature proposals, if implemented, will make a difference to
+>> what we have to do, and if so: what difference.
+>
+> About link[1] the idea is not mine I'd leave Steven talking about it
+> better. As far as I understood functionalities should not change and
+> the hope is that either the mcc look for the most, but that depends
+> imo on how the interface will be implemented and how we will able to add
+> what we have now, since i believe we can't re-write all...
+
+I am very glad people are getting behind the idea, and it might seem a 
+bit odd coming from me, but I think we should slow down and put this in 
+to perspective.
+
+MCC2 is in such early stages I don't really think it should at this 
+stage effect other work or planning just yet.
+As much as I want it to work, there is always a very real risk of 
+project failure, and it's way too early to be placing bets.
+At the moment I have a C++ program and a perl program that do little 
+more than hello world (though they work great across gui and ncurses! ).
+
+As far as a time line, these factors come into consideration for me....
+
+1/ I didn't actually plan for it to be ready (in a complete/stable form) 
+for Mageia 3, but wanted to get started on it and hopefully have it 
+available as an option for Mga3.
+2/ Until I get into more complicated code, I don't know what the 
+limitations of the library are, I have already been on the opensuse IRC 
+channel and spoke to the person who originally developed libYui, and he 
+(could be she, don't know), confirmed some issues already, so this may 
+effect the look and feel, or time required.
+3/ The period when I can really devote time to coding is between 
+November and March, until then progress will be slow
+
+
+So basically to answer the question, I don't think the proposal should 
+have any effect on what you do.
+While I would like to say it will work exactly the same way just using a 
+different ui library, I can't as I don't know what I am going to encounter.
+
+I think MCC2 should just be seen as an experiment until there is enough 
+done that it actually looks like a usable tool. Even the planning is 
+just a fuzzy idea, no concrete plans yet.
+
+I am sorry I haven't been clearer about this in the last week, but I 
+have been quite ill with fevers etc for the last 5 days, hence only 
+having barely more than hello world programs.
+
+Hope that helps ?
+
+Tuxta
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