[Skencil-devel] Revitalising Skencil

[Igor Novikov]

Hi Bernhard!

I just would like to remind that I'm waiting for suggestions/agreement
concerning
proposed Skencil project refactoring. This issue blocks further development.


-- 
Regards,

Igor Novikov
sK1 Project
http://sk1project.org

On Thu, Sep 16, 2010 at 5:02 PM, Igor Novikov <igor.e.novikov at gmail.com>wrote:

> On Thu, Sep 16, 2010 at 10:41 AM, Bernhard Reiter <bernhard at intevation.de>wrote:
>
>> Moin Igor,
>>
>> Am Mittwoch, 15. September 2010 23:58:38 schrieb Igor Novikov:
>> '
>>  On Mon, Sep 13, 2010 at 12:41 PM, Bernhard Reiter
>> <bernhard at intevation.de>wrote:
>>
>> > > Version: 0.6.17-16 works nicely for me on Debian Lenny.
>> > >
>> > > There were a couple of issues and Daniel Baumann, the former Debian
>> > > packager seems to have fixed some of the in -17:
>> > >
>> http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/pkgreport.cgi?pkg=skencil;dist=unstable
>> > > He also wrote the package it self would be in a good state,
>> > > but I haven't tried in Squeeze myself.
>> >
>> > It's not a problem solution. Patches from packagers are sometime
>> > unsuccessful.
>> > I have tested Skencil 0.6.17 under Ubuntu 10.04 and 10.10 It seems the
>> > fixes are not suitable.
>>
>> okay, can you say what the issues were?
>> (Just curious, if it takes too much times, just skip it. As I cannot
>> currently
>> test it on those Ubuntu versions.)
>>
>
> Major issue is menu rebuild problem. In 2008 there were changes in Tkinter
> which broke backward compatibility. Package maintainer just surround a
> problem
> code by "try-except" to allow launching Skencil. As a result we have
> multiplied
> menu items. I have fixed this issue in snapshot using direct tcl
> interpreter call.
> Actually you can see these changes on the same screenshot:
>
>
> http://saveimg.ru/pictures/16-09-10/b9946b1a266990760a5fe4ab8c85723f.png
>
> (problem code lines are commented)
>
> Next issue is a correct canvas refresh while selection rectangle is drew.
> It's
> looks like a buggy renderer but this issue also can be easy fixed.
>
>
>> > 2.Source code is separated from other files
>>
>> A good goal in principle, do you have a list of specific changes
>> you are proposing?
>>
>>
> 1. Skencil/, Resources/, Script/ and Plugins/ are moved into src/ folder
> 2. Lib/ folder is eliminated and all native modules are relocated into
> Skencil/Modules/ folder
> 3. Pixmaps/ is moved from Skencil/ into Resources/
> 4. Root "skencil" package is introduced
> 5. All native extensions source code is relocated in extensions/ folder
>
> Also I have moved temporary old description files from root folder into
> old_files/
> I have left only README file because it's required for distutils. The files
> should be
> refactored because some of them are have no sense. For example BUGS is good
> for
> small console utilities but not for large application. Known bugs should be
> in project
> bug tracker and there is no sense exposing incomplete bug list in BUGS
> file. And
> the same for other files. I think Skencil project should has a more
> flexible
> infrastructure on project web site to provide detailed info for users.
>
>
>> > 3.Proposed source code structure allows launching Skencil using SVN copy
>>
>> Directly? Isn't this possible already?
>>
>
> Yes, it's possible now. Source code structure is equal to working
> application.  On my computer
> src/ folder is linked as a 'skencil' in $PYTHON_HOME/dist-packages/ and
> skencil start script is placed
> into /usr/bin That's all needed for running SVN copy. And of course
> compiled native extensions
> are copied into src/Sketch/Modules/ By this way we have accelerated sK1
> development skipping
> application build after each code modification.
>
> Also for comfortable development SVN copy has "*.pyc, *.so" ignore
> patterns.
>
> Concerning ver.1.0 I would prefer maintaining release 0.6.18 and after that
> final ver.1.0 which will be
> last in tk branch. Gtk port could be started as ver.1.1
>
> So, is proposed project structure suitable? If it's OK I will start
> committing.
>
> --
> Regards,
>
> Igor Novikov
> sK1 Project
> http://sk1project.org
>
>
>
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