On Sat, Jun 05, 2004 at 03:45:01PM +0200, Mathieu Roy wrote: > Goswin von Brederlow <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Lars Steinke <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > >> On Fri, Jun 04, 2004 at 04:51:58PM +0200, Mathieu Roy wrote: > >>> Josip Rodin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >>> > >>> > On Fri, Jun 04, 2004 at 03:35:24PM +0200, Lars Steinke wrote: > >>> >> Package: wnpp > >>> >> Severity: wishlist > >>> >> > >>> >> * Package name : wmtemp > >>> >> Version : 0.0.4 > >>> >> Upstream Author : Peter Gnodde <peter at gnodde dot org> > >>> >> * URL : http://www.gnodde.org/projects/wmtemp.php > >>> >> * License : GPL > >>> >> Description : WindowMaker dock applet displaying lm_sensors > >>> >> temperature values > >>> >> > >>> >> Nifty small dock applet for Window Maker that continuously displays > >>> >> CPU and case temperature by virtue of lm_sensors > >>> > > >>> > What's the difference between this and wmgtemp which already has a > >>> > package? > >>> > >>> Considering the screenshots, they look radically different. > >> > >> Indeed, they are not the same. As I have packaged that little app for me > >> own > >> use I could as well let others benefit from my effort... > > > > Can't wmgtemp be 'themed' and both be merged into one deb? The > > functionality sounds identicaly and I bet there is a lot of code > > duplication in there. > > Since the author of wmtemp grabed code from wmgtemp (it is written on > his webpage), I guess he tried to avoid code duplication. > > It is clearly not obvious that such merge would not require more work > than just packaging the two. And it is not like if there was not > plenty of different program doing almost the same thing in debian, > with subtle differences.
Thanks Mathieu,
you are speaking my mind exactly. Anyway, I am not a programmer, so
merging the code of wmtemp and wmgtemp is not feasible for me and I
don't think a 14k .deb is such a waste of project resources that it is
worth the effort (of a code merge or even a lengthy discussion on
debian-devel...) - or is it ?
Hopefully no one feels offended by my upload to the ftp-master queue.
Regards,
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