[Savannah-hackers] Re: [Savannah] kit want to be a GNU package

[Henrik Abelsson]

On 14 May 2001, Hugo Gayosso wrote:

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> Henrik Abelsson <address@hidden> writes:
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> Don't worry, we are pretty backlogged ourselves. :-)
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I know the feeling :)
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> > I'm not sure you'll want kit in the state it's now - but i'm willing
> > to change what's needed to accommodate GNU needs..
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> Excellent, please take a look at:
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> GNU Coding Standards.
> <http://www.gnu.org/prep/standards_toc.html>
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Everything except some of the code formatting advice i like :)

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> Information For Maintainers of GNU Software
> <http://www.gnu.org/prep/maintain_toc.html>
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Hmm.. interesting issues you/we have to deal with to keep code Free. 

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> > * It depends on the horrible Qt toolkit (soon the gui will be
> > cleanly abstracted away from the protocol implementation, so
> > alternative frontends could be written without too much pain).
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> I think this is really something to fix.
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It's been fixed now, as promised :). The protocol implementations
are now completely separate from the frontend guis. We have a console, a
Qt and a wxWindows/GTK+ client in various stages of completion. 

Much of the client code has basically been rewritten from scratch to be
much cleaner and portable. 

> > * It's poorly documented. Read: hardly anything.
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> There is a section about documentation in the coding standards, please
> take a look.  (Texinfo is not difficult)
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I'll take a look at the gnu standards and see how much needs to be done to
make it compliant.

Thank you very much,
-henrik