[Mageia-dev] Proposed Feature:UiAbstraction4mcc

Wed Jun 13 14:35:41 CEST 2012

On 13/06/12 22:06, Guillaume Rousse wrote:
+> Le 13/06/2012 13:59, Steven Tucker a écrit :
+>> Just to be clear, I am not suggesting that we port Yast to Mageia, I am
+>> suggesting we use its Ui abstraction only. I use Mageia over openSuse
+>> for many reasons, but I do admire how well Yast works, and would love to
+>> see similar in Mageia. Perhaps we could start planning the next
+>> generation of MCC ??
+> I guess you're volonteer to do the porting work, and to maintain the 
+> tools thereafter. Otherwise, that's moot.
+>
+> In ten years of contribution to mandrake/mandriva/mageia, I've seen 
+> several similar proposals to rewrite those tools for "better graphical 
+> consistency with my prefered desktop (tm)" or "better maintainability 
+> unsing more adapted languages (c)". Unfortunatly, the level of actual 
+> contributions to the code to reach those marvelous goals barely 
+> reached the verbosity of the discussion on the mailing-list...
+
+Yeah I totally understand that attitude.
+I was in two minds about even suggesting it, but yes I would be part of 
+the effort, but no I can't do it all on my own.
+My other option was to say nothing and just start doing some work and if 
+I got far enough then suggest it. Perhaps that is the better approach.
+
+This proposal may be a bit different to the several others you have seen 
+in that a lot of the heavy lifting has already been done. The Ui layer 
+is provided by libYui and friends, and the logic is already there in 
+mcc. With the perl bindings to libYui the effort is no where near as 
+large as a rewrite, which I imagine the several other proposals were. I 
+would prefer it all to be written in C++, but that would be more work 
+than adapting the current perl code, so you see it's not just pie in the 
+sky, I have actually put some thought into it.
+
+If no one else can see the benefit, or care to be involved, then I'll 
+just make an external project and see where it goes.
+
+And hey, with your response, it made the mailing list :-P
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