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[Olivier Tilloy <olivier@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Hey Michael and the S-C gang!

Michael Vogt a écrit :
> Hello,
> 
> first, thanks for the discussions at UDS, that was a great and
> productive week!

It was, I enjoyed it a lot.

> In preparation for the tasks ahead with softare-center I did some work
> in trunk to reorganize the code a bit. The old softwarecenter/view
> directory is gone and there is softwarecener/ui/gtk now instead. This
> should allow us to add gtk3, qml UIs relatively easily. While we do
> that, we should refactor along the way and extract common code and
> move it out of the ui parts.

Awesome! I’m especially interested in experimenting with QML.

@Matthew, have you started playing with pyside to write a QML plugin in
pure python?

> We should also run the excellent "pyflakes" tool and try to get rid of
> all the warnings there. Mostly this should be relatively
> straightforward.
> 
> And finally, I removed the AptCache and AptHistory and replaced them
> with a generic "PackageInfo" and "PackageHistory" object (and apt
> specific implementations). 
> 
> I will continue to do some more refactor in the next few days to make
> the seperation for the helpers better. If you notice anything broken
> or have suggestions please talk to me, now is the right time for some
> churn in the layout of the code :)

All of this sounds very exciting, I’m looking forward to playing around
with the new code base.

Cheers,

Olivier