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[Daniel Foré <daniel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Well, I don't think it's unrealistic to expect that we can have our own desktop. We're attracting more and more developers as time goes on. And I think the example of Ne kind of backfires because we now have Marlin instead. So, if Mario wants to just fork and thinks he can maintain the app himself, I don't see anything wrong with that.

However, I do have to agree with Lucas that if the current build system works just fine I don't see a real reason to change it. 

Best Regards,
Daniel Foré

www.elementaryos.org

On Jan 5, 2012, at 1:54 PM, xapantu <xapantu@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Just, before you read this mail, this is your project, so, of course, you can do what you want ;) Here are only some advice.
> 
> No, sorry, it is a bad idea. We don't have the man power to maintain a full desktop (sorry, back to reality for most of the elementary team, but we won't be able to maintain all the pantheon desktop if we don't reuse most of the code). You can't really imagine merging upstream changes if you don't keep the build system. Maybe, right now, you think you will never merge again, but, we saw this in the past, with nautilus elementary, you'll have to (what about gtk4? what about new features you don't expect? etc...).
> 
> The other point is that the autotools are not evil. They work really nice when they are well used. Here, the build system perfectly works, it is stupid to maintain two build system. And, it is even useless to spend time on a CMake conversion, you will have to re-write the HOW-TO-BUILD docs, etc...
> 
> Lucas
> 
> 2012/1/5 Mario Guerriero <mefrio.g@xxxxxxxxx>
> Hi,
> 
> As you probably know I am working on a Vala version of Dexter using gnome-contacts codebase. It is something similar a fork and I want to move its build system to CMake as the others elementary apps but for this I need a very CMake expert because I don't know how to make it!
> https://blueprints.launchpad.net/dexter-contacts/+spec/cmake-build-system
> I know that this will broke the upstream compatibility but I don't want to follow the gnome-contacts developers anymore for a few reasons. The contacts store system is stable and it will automatically be improved at every release of folks with feature as the Windows Live support. Also the upstream dev started to follow an UI design way that I don't like, and probably the designers too. For example they created a dialog to add contacts but I (and lallenlowe) want it in-window as it is now. So Dexter will be more a fork, and not just a code modification.
> 
> I also want to release an initial version of the project after the porting to CMake
> 
> Best regards, 
> Mario
> 
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