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I see this is mostly about the editor MCedit, not the dual-pane filemanager itself. Does anyone know if the contributors of this fork ever talked to the curren

by mpol 6y ago

I see this is mostly about the editor MCedit, not the dual-pane filemanager itself. Does anyone know if the contributors of this fork ever talked to the current maintainers of mc? Since the fork of mc about 10 years ago, there has come a lot of new features and bugfixes into mc the filemanager. I would assume they are open for contributions. Anyone, I really love this Midnight Commander, It is maybe my most important and most used piece of software :)

lumpa 6y ago
He also has MC with Python scripting: https://github.com/psprint/mc https://github.com/psprint/mc Edit: and is submitting at least some code upstream e.g. https://midnight-commander.org/ticket/4160 https://midnight-commander.org/ticket/4160
smartmic 6y ago
> Does anyone know if the contributors of this fork ever talked to the current maintainers of mc? Yes, and there was a kind of dispute about this. The gist of it can be found in this ticket: https://midnight-commander.org/ticket/4187 https://midnight-commander.org/ticket/4187 EDIT: Interesting read also about the pros and cons of Slang2 as scripting language, some history and the job of maintaining mc in general …
- mpol 6y ago
  Interesting read, thank you. So there is also a plugin system in Lua waiting, it just needs someone to care for it. The S-lang plugin system will not go in mc itself since they prefer to get rid of S-lang alltogether, in favor of ncurses as screen library. This same author had a Python plugin system first, but scrapped it in favor of this S-lang plugin system. And yes, I can imagine they are looking more for people doing maintenance instead of innovators. They do seem genuine nice guys though.
  - iudqnolq 6y ago
    This sort of language seems a bit uncalled for to me > gee, look - a 3rd contender for a scripting integration ... and the 2nd from you, heh. i guess you're retracting #4136 then? > how does this compare in size with moofie's lua stuff? that's what the integration question mostly hinges on, i think. > according to trac's diff view, the indentation in the patch is somewhat random. how did you even manage to do that ...? :} >> Am I doing something wrong? > yes - not doing enough meditation. :D no, seriously, you need patience. a lot of it.

by mpol 6y ago

lumpa 6y ago

He also has MC with Python scripting: https://github.com/psprint/mc https://github.com/psprint/mc Edit: and is submitting at least some code upstream e.g. https://midnight-commander.org/ticket/4160 https://midnight-commander.org/ticket/4160

smartmic 6y ago

> Does anyone know if the contributors of this fork ever talked to the current maintainers of mc? Yes, and there was a kind of dispute about this. The gist of it can be found in this ticket: https://midnight-commander.org/ticket/4187 https://midnight-commander.org/ticket/4187 EDIT: Interesting read also about the pros and cons of Slang2 as scripting language, some history and the job of maintaining mc in general …

mpol 6y ago
Interesting read, thank you. So there is also a plugin system in Lua waiting, it just needs someone to care for it. The S-lang plugin system will not go in mc itself since they prefer to get rid of S-lang alltogether, in favor of ncurses as screen library. This same author had a Python plugin system first, but scrapped it in favor of this S-lang plugin system. And yes, I can imagine they are looking more for people doing maintenance instead of innovators. They do seem genuine nice guys though.
- iudqnolq 6y ago
  This sort of language seems a bit uncalled for to me > gee, look - a 3rd contender for a scripting integration ... and the 2nd from you, heh. i guess you're retracting #4136 then? > how does this compare in size with moofie's lua stuff? that's what the integration question mostly hinges on, i think. > according to trac's diff view, the indentation in the patch is somewhat random. how did you even manage to do that ...? :} >> Am I doing something wrong? > yes - not doing enough meditation. :D no, seriously, you need patience. a lot of it.