[referencer] Libglade to GtkBuilder and GnomeVfs to Gio ports

[John Spray]

Hi all,

Now would be a great time to come to a consensus on a new host, so that I can remove the stale repository on icculus.org.  You should choose something that includes at least source hosting and a web/wiki bit, like github, bitbucket etc.  I don't mind leaving the mailing lists on icculus.org, since they're zero-maintenance.    If a few developers can agree on a location then I'll be happy to bless it and retire the icculus.org stuff.  Once there's a DVCS host, then it is easy for various people to do their development in branches on there, and the 'master' will effectively be whichever is making the most progress and up for making releases.

I know that Matej has been doing some work, and also Andreas Dalsgaard and Mads. Chr. Olesen.  If the branches of those three can be merged cleanly then I expect that would be a natural main branch for future referencer work.  I also apologise for not coordinating a handover earlier.

Cheers,
John

On 21 Feb 2011, at 15:48, António Lima wrote:

> Seg, 2011-02-21 às 15:33 +0000, Matej Urbas escreveu:
>> Why did you switch from Mercurial to Git?
>> 
> 
> Well, I'm sorry for this. It was just for personal use, I didn't mean to
> fork or anything like it. I just didn't have any experience with
> mercurial and there are more free online services for git that I know
> of. Not the best move I see now.
> 
>> It also seems like you have just discarded the whole Mercurial history.
>> 
>> Anyways, do you really expect everyone to just follow you on this?
>> 
>> Most of us have our own local clones of the main repository. All our
>> changes are properly tracked by Mercurial and can be thus merged at any
>> time into the main repository (or a replacement thereof).
>> 
>> Please, justify this move.
> 
> I'll delete the repository in gitourios right away, I have of course all
> the changes in my local machine.
> 
> I really don't want to cause any problems, just to contribute if
> possible.
> 
> Sorry for this once more.
> 
> Regards,
> António Lima
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
>> 
>> On ned, 2011-02-20 at 15:17 -0100, António Lima wrote:
>>> Hi,
>>> 
>>> Dom, 2011-02-20 às 12:32 +0000, Matej Urbas escreveu:
>>>> Hi,
>>>> 
>>>> I have also done some cleanup,but could never merge it back.
>>>> I've ported the code that writes/loads the reflib XML file to libxml
>>>> (with some other minor things).
>>>> 
>>> 
>>> That's great! Of course not having access to the main repo makes people
>>> sticking with their changes and never merging it back. As I said in the
>>> previous email I have a git repo at gitorious where I have my changes. I
>>> can give commit privileges if anyone is interested.
>>> 
>>> 
>>> Cheers,
>>> António Lima
>>> 
>>>> Best,
>>>> ---
>>>> Matej
>>>> 
>>>> On 18 Feb 2011 21:40, "António Lima" <amrlima at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>> Hi,
>>>>> 
>>>>> My name is António Lima and I'm a (part-time) computer science
>>>> student.
>>>>> 
>>>>> I've contacted Referencer maintainer some days ago about
>>>> contributing to
>>>>> Referencer. I didn't see the mailling list back then, I guess I
>>>> should
>>>>> have tried here first. Anyway, John Spray must be busy as he hasn't
>>>>> answered yet.
>>>>> 
>>>>> As you know Referenced uses many deprecated library's such as
>>>> ligblade,
>>>>> gnomevfs and libgnomeui.
>>>>> 
>>>>> I've made the port from libglade to GtkBuilder. I don't have real
>>>>> experience with gtkmm but it was quite simple.
>>>>> 
>>>>> I'm working on the gnomevfs -> gio port but that is more complex and
>>>>> requires more code change. I've done quite a big part of the port by
>>>> now
>>>>> but I would like to know what's the state of the development,
>>>> especially
>>>>> if anyone is working on this and if there are other active
>>>> contributors
>>>>> since the last commit is from August 2009.
>>>>> 
>>>>> Thanks!
>>>>> 
>>>>> Regards,
>>>>> António Lima
>>>>> 
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