[referencer] Libglade to GtkBuilder and GnomeVfs to Gio ports

António Lima amrlima at gmail.com
Mon Feb 21 12:40:30 EST 2011


Hi,

Seg, 2011-02-21 às 16:23 +0000, Matej Urbas escreveu:
> António, Sorry for the harsh tone -- I didn't intend to sound that
> mean. :) Apologies for that -- my bad.

No harm done, Matej :).

> In fact, thank you for doing this.
> 
> Mercurial and git are quite similar. If you feel at home with git, you
> will find the same with Mercurial.

I'm willing to learn whatever people prefer to use. When everything is
settled I will ask someone to look at my changes.

Thanks!
António Lima

> Here are some hosting sites, which support mercurial (I would prefer
> sourceforge, just because I already have an account there :) ):
> 
> http://sourceforge.net/
> http://code.google.com/
> http://savannah.nongnu.org/
> http://www.tuxfamily.org/
> 
> If you need help with setting things up, just yell.
> 
> Best,
> ---
> Matej
> 
> On pon, 2011-02-21 at 14:48 -0100, António Lima wrote:
> > 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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