> Dear mentors, Hi,
First, thanks for the effort packaging such a beast. I didn't look at the package properly (sorry, lack of time), but I had a look at your debian/copyright which makes me think that you at least went through the code. > The upload would fix these bugs: 516896 > > The package can be found on mentors.debian.net: > - URL: http://mentors.debian.net/debian/pool/main/c/codelite > - Source repository: deb-src http://mentors.debian.net/debian unstable > main contrib non-free > - dget > http://mentors.debian.net/debian/pool/main/c/codelite/codelite_1.0.2893+dfs >g-1.dsc > > In addition, this package is already in Ubuntu -- > http://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/codelite I have some questions which might need a broader discussion, before we proceed (I don't place any burden on you to answer them, of course, but your opinion would be appreciated as well): It seems like there is a great part of users who are not so happy with the current C/C++ IDE available in Debian, hence they are packaging more and more C/C++ IDE's, like codelite and codeblocks [1], which are both already available in Ubuntu (can't comment on their quality since I've never used them [2]). Packaging and _properly maintaining_ such large and complex code bases is a tremendous effort, since amongst other things they tend to embed almost any kind of libraries and external projects (except libc;-) to make their life "easier". Therefore having a clear view on the following would probably safe people's time checking unneeded prospective packages and would hopefully add quality to existing ones: Do we really need more C/C++ IDE's? Which one: a) codelite, b) codeblocks, c) both, d) other? (a side note: cooperating with Ubuntu's maintainers seems like a win-win situation to me). [1] ITP: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=304570 (lots of interested users, but nothing yet) [2] Jen Lody's unofficial packages, I saw some of my colleagues to use happily: http://apt.jenslody.de/ P.S. and yes, I'm not a fan Eclipse CDT nor I have any feeling with MSVC though I use it daily. -- pub 4096R/0E4BD0AB 2003-03-18 <people.fccf.net/danchev/key pgp.mit.edu> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-mentors-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
