On 6/26/07, Xavier <shiningxc@gmail.com> wrote:
Thanks for bringing this back, I also wanted to hear the status of this.
But I believe pacman still requires a lot of cleaning / refactoring in many places, so not sure if it's ready for getting new features. It should really depend on the parts of the code affected by this patch, how ready they are, and also how this patch implements this feature. Dan and Aaron should be more able to answer this than me..
Seems like pacman development has slowed down a lot, compared to the beginning of this year, while there is still so much to do :(
Oooo, this implementation is starting to get much closer to what we want and need, as the color sequences and such are not hardcoded in multiple places. As said above, pacman development has been a bit slow as I've been working alone on it for a bit, and even I have had quite a few other things to take care of. In addition, every time I want to add a new feature I find about 5 other sections in the code that look like they are in need of a rewrite or rethinking. There is a chance this could make it in, although at the same time I'd like to get the output situation of pacman working a lot better than it is now. It is a convoluted mix of functions and strings in both the backend and frontend, and that is too much complexity. Long story short- this looks good, and it will eventually make its way into pacman. So don't fret- your work hasn't good to waste. Is there a pacman-color AUR package for now, at least? -Dan