Hello Everyone, I think it definitely makes sense to drop the 'core' name and take on the 'legacy' scheme as described. Additionally, seeing as 'compiz-core-bzr' is more actively maintained, and that 'compiz-core-devel' is basically a derivative now; I've been curious if Chazza would like to adopt the package. I occasionally receive patches from him and notice much more community involvement on the Wiki/AUR/Forums in regard to 'compiz-core-bzr'. I seem to be an unnecessary middleman for such an infrequently updated package. /dev/rs0 On 07/25/2014 03:43 AM, Rob McCathie wrote:
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All information on this page: http://www.compiz.org/ is completely wrong and out of date, like 5 years out of date, and should not be used as a reference for anything.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