Well, I don't think it's unrealistic to expect that we can have our own desktop. We're attracting more and more developers as time goes on. And I think the example of Ne kind of backfires because we now have Marlin instead. So, if Mario wants to just fork and thinks he can maintain the app himself, I don't see anything wrong with that.
However, I do have to agree with Lucas that if the current build system works just fine I don't see a real reason to change it. Best Regards, Daniel Foré www.elementaryos.org On Jan 5, 2012, at 1:54 PM, xapantu <xapa...@gmail.com> wrote: > Just, before you read this mail, this is your project, so, of course, you can > do what you want ;) Here are only some advice. > > No, sorry, it is a bad idea. We don't have the man power to maintain a full > desktop (sorry, back to reality for most of the elementary team, but we won't > be able to maintain all the pantheon desktop if we don't reuse most of the > code). You can't really imagine merging upstream changes if you don't keep > the build system. Maybe, right now, you think you will never merge again, > but, we saw this in the past, with nautilus elementary, you'll have to (what > about gtk4? what about new features you don't expect? etc...). > > The other point is that the autotools are not evil. They work really nice > when they are well used. Here, the build system perfectly works, it is stupid > to maintain two build system. And, it is even useless to spend time on a > CMake conversion, you will have to re-write the HOW-TO-BUILD docs, etc... > > Lucas > > 2012/1/5 Mario Guerriero <mefri...@gmail.com> > Hi, > > As you probably know I am working on a Vala version of Dexter using > gnome-contacts codebase. It is something similar a fork and I want to move > its build system to CMake as the others elementary apps but for this I need a > very CMake expert because I don't know how to make it! > https://blueprints.launchpad.net/dexter-contacts/+spec/cmake-build-system > I know that this will broke the upstream compatibility but I don't want to > follow the gnome-contacts developers anymore for a few reasons. The contacts > store system is stable and it will automatically be improved at every release > of folks with feature as the Windows Live support. Also the upstream dev > started to follow an UI design way that I don't like, and probably the > designers too. For example they created a dialog to add contacts but I (and > lallenlowe) want it in-window as it is now. So Dexter will be more a fork, > and not just a code modification. > > I also want to release an initial version of the project after the porting to > CMake > > Best regards, > Mario > > -- > Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~elementary-dev-community > Post to : elementary-dev-community@lists.launchpad.net > Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~elementary-dev-community > More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp > > > -- > Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~elementary-dev-community > Post to : elementary-dev-community@lists.launchpad.net > Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~elementary-dev-community > More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
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