[Mageia-dev] The shiny new Control Center

Sun Sep 30 09:03:34 CEST 2012

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+> De: "Steven Tucker" <tuxta2 at gmail.com>
+> À: "Mageia development mailing-list" <mageia-dev at mageia.org>
+> Envoyé: Samedi 29 Septembre 2012 14:14:03
+> Objet: [Mageia-dev] The shiny new Control Center
+> 
+> Hi everyone,
+> 
+> I have been doing a little work on the proposed control center - mcc2
+> 
+> https://wiki.mageia.org/en/Feature:UiAbstraction4mcc
+> 
+> and would like to put a couple of questions forward to find some direction.
+
+i don't see the point of this rewrite. This have not been discussed a lot but i think that
+this is a lack of time. For me the prior thing to do would be to write a interactive::qt for mcc using perl-qt4 or perl-kde4
+
+I think  that if you want to write it in an other language this is more because you have not saw  that all our code is linked 
+so you will double the code base,  the code to maintain, the possible bugs, etc etc.
+
+> 1/ What should we call it ??
+> 
+>          I have been using mcc2 as a working name, however I'm not 
+> convinced this is the right approach. I will soon be uploading the code 
+> (been using my own svn repo up till now), and it would be good to start 
+> with the name it will stick with. Should the name relate to Mageia?, or 
+> should it be more generic?
+> 
+
+you will upload it where ? you can use a github repo i think to make it public.
+
+> 2/ What languages should be available for writing modules? (Perl, C++, 
+> python and Ruby are possibilities)
+> 
+>          So far mcc2 has been written in Perl (even though I had never 
+> written a line of Perl prior to starting this) so as to make porting 
+> existing modules a matter of just replacing the Ui calls, but I do like 
+> the idea of allowing the modules to be written in more than 1 language 
+> to encourage more contributors who may be turned off by having to learn 
+> another language.
+> Sticking with Perl will make mcc2 core easier, so I may do that 
+> initially regardless. What do you all think?? Is sticking with 1 
+> language preferred even if it means less contributors, or is the goal to 
+> attract as many module developers as possible?
+
+yes but our libraries are in perl too don't forget this ( libDrakX ). In general i am not a big fan of 
+mixing languages.
+
+> 3/ What should the license be?
+>          I would be happy to make it GPL V3, but is there any argument 
+> for something different ?
+
+As mcc is in gplv2+ i think you have to stick with this licence ( not 100% sure )
+
+> 4/ As an official Mageia project, do I need to sign the copyright over 
+> to Mageia ??
+>          I am more than happy to do so, I would only ask that I get 
+> noted somewhere as the developer, hopefully others will join the 
+> developer list as well.
+
+
+> Just to give you an idea of where my code is at ......
+> It is still in early stages, with I would guess about 400 - 500 lines of 
+> code.
+> It works across ncurses, gtk and qt with a consistent interface, however 
+> there seems to be a bug in the libyui-qt libriaries which Angelo and 
+> Matteo will be looking into (Big thank you to those guys for packaging 
+> the libyui libraries and helping out when I have questions). 
+
+libyui has been choosen w/o real discussions, i don't want you to loose you time if 
+at final we don't choose it.
+
+
+> I have little time to work on this for the next 6 weeks, but I hope to 
+> have the core system complete, or near to complete when Santa visits, 
+> though porting (and adding new) modules will be the bigger task.
+
+better work would be to fix existing one and add new interactive::qt ( or qt4 ). 
+And seeing the != between qt4 and qt5 the port to qt5 will be a 'piece of cake'.
+
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