On Tue, Apr 05, 2016 at 11:04:59AM -0700, David Champion wrote: > OK - that's a good track to have. The thing that made me think otherwise > was the removal of hg-related components. Kevin has the final say now > but we've never discussed moving to git, and I don't see what doing > so would accomplish particularly other than allow/make people use one > hosting system instead of another.
The one thing I see is that git is far more popular than Mercurial, which means that many more developers know it. Personally, I use neither, but I'd be a lot more inclined to learn git as I can see doing so would have far greater value to me. I say this to provide an example, not because I think that what I think matters more than what others do (though, clearly, it does). =8^) > > However, sidebar has been waiting on the sidelines for ten years, > > already. [...] > > The issues were pretty strong at the time. I'm not completely opposed > to this but I would like to feel comfortable that it's on a maintainable > track and that we can converge it toward code that we like, not just > put up with. I'd be interested in any perspective past developers/ > maintainers might recall about it (tlr, me, brendan?) I think you're on to the biggest issue: Neither Mutt nor the patch promote maintainability or extensibility of UI enhancements (I'm not really in a position to evaluate this, only stating what I think past objections were). Both Mutt and the patch need to be taught to do things the right way, both to make maintaining that feature easier, and to make future extensibility more managable. Perhaps this should be a 2.0 goal? :) FWIW related to this: One thing I've always wanted to see was to create a uniform API for the UI, and also for mailboxes, so that it was easier to basically completely replace the UI, and to implement new mail store types. If we used console-based widgets for the UI it'd probably make adding the sidebar a lot cleaner and maintainable. I'm certain such libraries already exist... -- Derek D. Martin http://www.pizzashack.org/ GPG Key ID: 0xDFBEAD02 -=-=-=-=- This message is posted from an invalid address. Replying to it will result in undeliverable mail due to spam prevention. Sorry for the inconvenience.
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