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I would probably suggest extending one that already exists. If you extend one by adding the features you want, great, perhaps others want those same features t
by J_Darnley 12y ago
I would probably suggest extending one that already exists. If you extend one by adding the features you want, great, perhaps others want those same features too. They might be willing to help in some degree (coding, testing, documenting).
Starting from scratch, or from an existing library, without lots of dedicated effort and some thought about maintaining it, it will decay into yet another "half finished" project.
- prodigen 12y agoThanks, I tried translate deluge to py3.4.1 but many bugs and the main development is dead. Also I tried to contribute into existing projects but they don't accept the main idea; minimalist modular client with kde-like plugin system.
- J_Darnley 12y agoYou don't have to do it with the original devs' consent. It would be nice to get it folded back into the original but if that doesn't happen you can just have it as a fork (of some degree). Your idea does sound hard to bolt onto an existing client. Minimalist ones probably don't like the weight a plugin system will add, even if none are used. And clients that are open to having a plugin system added, or an existing one extended, probably aren't that minimalist to start with. Trying to get deluge to work with new python sounds like a good aim to encourage others to help you with it. Many people seem to lament the slow progress being made in adopting python 3. Try to contact past contributors and the current "maintainers". See which ones are open to the idea of using python 3. (This all sounds like far more work than I like to attempt.)