Hello AUR general & Compiz package maintainers.
There was some discussion about Compiz packages a little while ago, i don't think that much came of it. I'd like to re-open the discussion.
My opinions/suggestions:
Calling the 0.8 series "compiz" and the 0.9 series "compiz-devel" is no longer correct, it hasn't been for quite some time.
All information on this page: http://www.compiz.org/ is completely wrong and out of date, like 5 years out of date, and should not be used as a reference for anything. Tracking of the state of Compiz should be done from here: https://launchpad.net/compiz
Development of the 0.8 series is as close to being dead as it could be. Unless you count 2 tiny commits 5 months ago, nothing has been done in 16 months, and even that 16 month old commit was a minor change just to get it working with KDE 4.10, with the commit prior to that being an additional 5 months back. http://cgit.compiz.org/compiz/core/log/?h=compiz-0.8
My suggestion is pretty simple, "compiz" becomes the 0.9 series, the 0.8 series becomes "compiz-legacy". Any 0.9 series packages that have "core" in their name should have it removed, since the concept of Compiz being split up has been dropped since the 0.9 series. The 0.9 series doesn't have a "core" component, it's just "compiz".
Some examples:
martadinata666's "compiz-core" package would become "compiz-legacy-core"
dev_rs0's "compiz-core-devel" package would become simply "compiz"
Chazza's "compiz-core-bzr" package would become "compiz-bzr"
flexiondotorg's "compiz-core-mate" package would become "compiz-legacy-core-mate"
My "compiz-gtk-standalone" package would become "compiz-legacy-gtk-standalone"
All the "compiz-fusion-plugins-*" packages would become "compiz-legacy-fusion-plugins-*"
...and so on.
What are everyone's thoughts?
-- Regards, Rob McCathie
If that's true, why haven't the developers updated the site to reflect that?
I think it's fairly obvious that no one is actually maintaining that site.
The lead developer seems to consider the project dead, and the site reflects that view. Canonical is doing temporary maintenance of their fork until they move to Mir.
I wouldn't call the 0.9 series "Canonical's fork". Canonical hired lead Compiz developer, Sam Spilsbury, to continue work on Compiz. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Compiz#Compiz_0.9_series I don't see how the current launchpad hosted Compiz could be considered anything other than the true successor. Also, to ensure another common misconception doesn't crop up - The Compiz 0.9 gets further patched beyond what is on launchpad.net/compiz by Canonical for Unity. The code you get if you source directly from launchpad.net/compiz is not Unity or Ubuntu specific. I can say this with much confidence, since i've been using it for months now combined with Xfce (as a xfwm4 replacement) on Arch and Manjaro systems. -- Regards, Rob McCathie