Re: [Pythondialog-users] pythondialog is not dead!

[Peter Å. <as...@ce...>]

Hi, see comments below.

> Well, there has been a long time without any pythondialog release. I
> guess no bug had to be fixed. :)
>
> I am happy to announce version 2.09[1], with enough improvements to
> warrant an announcement here (see the ChangeLog excerpt at the end of

This is all nice and so, but I think we are confusing our users by having 
at least three different "forks" of the project:

* Your version

* The Sourceforge one

* The fork by Chris Dew.

I think this is partly my fault. I've been a poor maintainer for the last 
years, and I can now see that I've not even responded to the request from 
Chris Dew to step in as a maintainer. Sorry for that - I haven't kept 
track of the mailing list very well. Please always use my direct email for 
such important issues.

Btw, does anyone have the email adress to Chris Dew? I've failed to find 
it.



> ----> Peter, would you be so kind to give me ownership on PyPI? Thanks
>      in advance. Similarly with SourceForge, BTW...

I don't have access to PyPI. The Package Index Owner is "paulproteus". 
You'll need to contact him. But first of all, I think we should think a 
little bit about merging our 3 forks...


> The new version is available here:
>
>  http://people.via.ecp.fr/~flo/projects/pythondialog/dist/

You don't use any kind of version control system? This is really bady, 
IMO. I tend to avoid software that lacks proper version control.

I can see that Chris Dew uses git. This is not my cup of tee either - I 
prefer Subversion - but it's way batter than nothing.


I think that the best solution for pythondialog would be that someone like 
Chris Dew took over the Sourceforge project, migrated to Subversion, and 
then incorporated the various patches floating around, for example your 
2.09 changes.


> This catering for Xdialog's incompatibilities with dialog is the only
> pythondialog regression I would expect since version 2.7 (the one on
> SourceForge). Since I am not sure anyone is still using Xdialog, and
> since it presents itself as a _drop-in_ replacement for dialog after
> all, I'd prefer not doing the change if it turns out to be useless.
> However, in case people are *still* using that, I can put it back: it
> wasn't that invasive.

We are still using Xdialog. Others might as well. I think that just 
removing Xdialog support is totally wrong. If the goal is to remove it, we 
should start by deprecating it in 1 or 2 releases. We can't just suddenly 
remove it.



>
>  [1] Yeah, I know very well it is the same as 2.9 (in the most
>      common/sane versioning scheme), but I started this way years ago,
>      and 2.09 / 2.10 / etc. sort much better than 2.9 in lexicographic
>      order, which is always pleasant in a directory listing such as:

I *hate* version numbers like 2.09.



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