"mc is over!?"

[Egmont Koblinger]

Btw i fixed gnome-terminal's key sequences about a year ago

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On May 28, 2015 11:57 PM, "Steve Rainwater" <srainwater at ncc.com> wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> I'm another long time user of mc. I've used it on Windows, Solaris,
> HP-UX, and currently on GNU/Linux (mostly Fedora and CentOS). I use it
> daily and find it an indispensable tool. Thanks to everyone who's worked
> on it over the years! If mc development is really coming to an end
> without new developers, I'm willing to devote a little time to working
> on it. I'm a C programmer and have submitted patches here and there to
> other projects like Apache and LibXML2.
>
> I don't really care much about new mc features but I would like to see
> work done on fixing bugs. There are mc bugs that have annoyed me for
> many years, like the keybinding breakage with with GNOME terminal that
> happened four or five years back and still isn't fixed.
>
> Can someone point me to the developer resources like the source code
> repo? I guess a good starting point is check out the current code and
> get it compiling. Do new developers need to create an account anywhere
> to get access?
>
> -Steve
>
>
> On Thu, 2015-05-28 at 20:03 +0100, Michal Pirgl wrote:
> > Hi
> >
> > I have been using mc for many years and I would like to thank to
> > everyone who spent their time on this project.
> >
> > I also cannot promise 20hrs in a week but I would like to
> > participate/develop as much as I can to help in free time.
> >
> > Regards,
> > Michal
> >
> >
> >
> > From: "Mike Smithson" <mdooligan gmail com>
> > To: mc-devel gnome org
> > Cc: mc gnome org
> > Subject: Re: "mc is over!?"
> > Date: Thu, 28 May 2015 07:26:22 -0700
> >
> > ________________________________
> >
> > Bah. Mc is not "over". Things change, that's all.
> >
> > I've been into mc since I don't know when. The first time I
> > used it. Mid/late 90s I'm guessing. I saw how it floundered
> > in the 4.6 series. I shrugged and kept tweaking and hacking my
> > version. A few years went by and I looked it up again, purely
> > out of curiosity.
> >
> > I was delighted that someone had given it a full work over into
> > the 4.8 series. There were some persistent, puzzling, and very
> > annoying bugs that are now gone.
> >
> > Excellent work, gentlemen. Thank you very much.
> >
> > My list of personal patches went from ~30 down to ~5, where they
> > sit now, mostly minor interface tweaks. Mc works, and it works
> > very well. If development stagnates for a while, so be it. There
> > is actually very little to do. Mc is as close to perfect as
> > software gets. There will always be bugs and minor tweaks, and
> > that's what needs to be worked on, now and forever.
> >
> > Yes, mc in its current incarnation is a model from the 1990s. I
> > like it that way. I'm not a big fan of C++. I also don't like
> > eye candy in a tool that is all about functionality and utility,
> > and I very much appreciate a file manager that can operate when
> > XWindows cannot, or the system is barely bootable.
> >
> > It's the perfect size: big enough to be feature-rich and highly
> > usable, yet small enough that a single individual can
> > (theoretically) get his head around the entire code base. It's
> > also fun to hack.
> >
> > I cannot guarantee 20hrs/week, but I would be very interested to
> > work through bug reports and small enhancement requests at my
> > own pace, and see what I can get done.
> >
> > As a last thought for this email:
> >
> > I suppose what we have here is a complete lack of consensus as to
> > the direction to take if we were to move into a 5.0 series.
> > My thinking is along the lines of complete modularity: a basic
> > interface design (that already exists) and everything else is
> > plugins. What if I want to use mc for inventory control? Make a
> > plugin to work with SQL instead of filesystem. Perhaps there
> > needs to be room for people to experiment with this sort of
> > thing. A 4.9beta branch that starts off as mess and arguments but
> > slowly gets sorted into something with vision.
> >
> > That's my 2 cents worth.
> >
> > Take care, and best wishes for those who are moving on to bigger
> > and better things. Thank you for your labors.
> >
> >
> >
> > --
> > Peace and Cheer
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