removing the obsolete gnome (gmc) support?
Arpi
arpi at thot.banki.hu
Thu Jan 23 21:07:44 UTC 2003
Hi,
> > While searching for the current MC homepage/download/cvs etc
> > (btw where is it? i still not find it, the http://mc.blackdown.org/mc/
> > url points to some java4linux crap!) i've found an interesting mail:
>
> You must have lived under rock for years.
sure. i was busy 24/7 with mplayer development and with my job in the rest.
(and still using amc 4.1.35-a12pre (yes a12 was never finished) on all my hosts)
i didn't even know about being a big difference between 4.5.x and 4.6.
i've seen 4.6.0rcX announce recently but i thouht it's just 4.5.xx (xx == too
big number) renamed :)
> Maybe you are Kevin Mitnick? :-)
not (yet) :)
> Go to www.google.com and enter "Midnight Commander homepage". Click "I'm
> feeling lucky". The answer will be prominently displayed in your browser.
Eh. I've tried "midnight commander download patch fix" :)
> > I thought i'm the only not using/liking gmc and wanted to remove gmc
> > from the code years ago.
>
> You are not alone.
Nice to hear!
> > Yes, I was who started AMC 3 years ago, to
> > make a cleaner, stable mc version targeted for console only.
> > (ftp://thot.banki.hu/esp-team/linux/mc-4.1.35-A12pre1[.txt|.tar.gz])
>
> I know about it. I always wanted to take your FXP support in VFS, but I
> never had time for that.
I've never really used the FXP thing (added for request by friends) but i'll
try to port it now.
> > Now, that i'm about leaving the MPlayer project, I plan to work again
> > on AMC. But I didn't decided yet if i'll continue patching the old 4.1.x
> > series or fork the 4.5.x code and remove the crap (mainly gmc), or maybe
> > start a new project from scratch and maybe porting some parts from 4.1.x
> > or 4.5.x.
>
> I'm glad to welcome you in our team. The existence of AMC was an
> important argument for removing the GNOME frontend. Your expertize will
Eh. I'm really surprised :)
> be very useful. It would be great if you help us merge changes made in
> AMC.
I'll try to do my best.
> > So, the question: are you planning to remove gnome gmc hack in the
> > near future from 4.5.x tree?
>
> Why do you care about 4.5.x tree? 4.6.x tree won't have it from the
> beginning.
>
> Please test 4.6.0-pre3 or the CVS version. I hope to release 4.6.0 very
I'm downloading (cvs co mc) CVS right now.
I think it will take some time to re-learn the mc code structure, i
haven't seen it since years...
I thought that 4.5.xx is the current version, and its bugs are not fixed
there since years because no one develops mc nowdays or they're all working
on the gmc part :)
It is the reason why i planned to fork or start a new project from scratch.
It's amazing to see that it's still under development and the goal is again
making a stable bugfree console tool instead of yet another winblows-exploder
or win-commander clone for gnome/X.
A'rpi / Astral & ESP-team
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