PyXDG

[Jerome Leclanche]

On Sat, Apr 28, 2012 at 8:42 PM, Thomas Kluyver <thomas at kluyver.me.uk>wrote:

> (Accidentally replied off list, sending to the list now)
>
> On 25 April 2012 12:27, Jerome Leclanche <adys.wh at gmail.com> wrote:
> > I've been working for a while now on a python implementation of xdg
> specs,
> > it works on both python2 and 3. PyXDG codebase is absolutely awful. Link
> > below if anyone's interested. It's not feature-complete yet though...
>
> Thanks, Jerome. Do you have a feel for:
>
> - How long will it take to replace the functionality of PyXDG?
> - How similar will the interface be? Will adapting code that uses it
> just require renaming a few functions, or will it need other code to
> be refactored?
>
> I haven't got a particular interest in maintaining PyXDG myself, but
> there are quite a few other packages that depend on it. I think it
> would be pretty easy to make PyXDG Python 3 compatible, so I suggest
> we make a 0.20 release with just those changes, so that existing code
> can keep using it. Then we can encourage people to move to your
> interface over time.
>
> Vincent:
> > We can migrate the CVS repo to git, and give you access if you're
> interested and nobody else steps up :-)
>
> Thanks, that sounds like a good idea. I'll start working out what
> changes are needed for Python 3.
>
> Thomas
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Quick offtopic about the recentfiles spec: is it still relevant? I see all
distros/DEs using xbel files now, not the type described in the spec, which
is why I didn't write a recentfiles module...

J. Leclanche
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