[Specto-devel] move to google code

[Kiddo <nek...@gm...>]

Attention everyone! Changes ahead!

First, what happened today? Thomas McColgan & me worked on getting Specto to
run locally. That means you don't need to install it. This actually BREAKS
setup.py and all the installation stuff. It needs to be fixed, if anyone
wants to do it in their spare time, it would be good (especially for distro
packagers). Second, we changed the directory structure a tiny bit. It is now
cleaner. Removed some useless files such as "NEWS" and "README" which were
empty anyway. Then, we moved a lot of stuff into a data/ directory, the
source code in src/ and src/specto, and the translation files in po/. To run
specto, you just need to use launch.sh.

As of right now, the pygettext tool to extract translatatable strings from
the code seems broken, for no decent reason at all it seems. If anyone wants
to find out the problem and fix it, it would be much appreciated.

Finally, as I could not get any outbursts of rage and indignation, and
everyone seemed to consider resistance futile, I moved specto to Google Code
today.



What this means:
- Specto's Sourceforge CVS is DEAD. Don't use it. Use the spanking new SVN
repo, it works the same (but faster) and I updated the instructions on the
wiki.

- The mailing list will also be deprecated (this should be my last post?) in
favor of google groups: http://groups.google.com/group/specto and
http://groups.google.com/group/specto-commits. If all went well, I already
subscribed you on those if you were subscribed on the sourceforge mailing
lists. Please test :)

- We don't use launchpad for bugs and features (specifications). Everything
is tracked inside Google Code's issue tracker. I migrated the bugs and
feature requests there, feel free to change them, claim the tasks, etc.

- You need a gmail account for developer access. I can send hundreds of
invitations, so please ask if you need one, I will be glade to provide it.
If you don't like using gmail, well you can always tell it to forward all
your mail, or use it through POP with a mail client such as Evolution.

- You should remove your CVS directory and grab the SVN trunk from scratch.
It will be a LOT cleaner, because of the changes we made to the directory
structure.

This is a copy of the post I will be sending to Google Groups.
Jeff