Re: Meld 1.2 released

["Stephen Kennedy" <stevek gnome org>]

Hi Kacper, I did look at your patch and have even been hacking it a
little locally.
I'm glad to see you still pushing it. It's long overdue, but here's my
feedback if
you're still interested.

There are two features which I wanted to add to your patch
1) blocking mode: When a tab is opened from dbus, it should block and return
the exit status from the tab. This is the killer application of dbus
imho since it
makes it much more friendly to vc merge scripts (which currently have to rely
on timestamp sniffing etc). This needs some work on the meld side to actually
provide the exit status.

2) If there are multiple meld instances running, when the dbus
instance exits, one of the other instances should take over. Otherwise
you can have several melds none
of which respond to dbus requests.

Stephen.

On Sat, Jun 28, 2008 at 4:41 PM, Kacper Wysocki <kacperw online no> wrote:
> On Fri, Jun 27, 2008 at 1:16 AM, Stephen Kennedy <stevek gnome org> wrote:
>> Many thanks to all patch submitters. I've picked out the larger ones for
>> mentions in the changelog but they're all appreciated.
>>
>> Encouragingly there have been more patches in the last few months
>> than in the several years preceding. Long may it continue!
>
> I realize that the issue may now be smelly but what happened to the
> dbus code to launch separate calls to meld in new tabs in the same
> window [*]? Considering I've been pushing the patch for years now
> without feedback I'm assuming there is something wrong with it and/or
> meld is not such a patch-friendly project. I guess I get to keep my
> own "fork" with dbus support. What gives?
>
> Cheers,
>  -Kacper
>
> [*] Description and patch at http://kacper.doesntexist.org/hacks/#meld
> and bugtrack http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=453670
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