[Mageia-dev] UiAbstraction4mcc feature proposal

[nicolas vigier]

On Mon, 02 Jul 2012, Angelo Naselli wrote:

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> Hi,
> Il 02/07/2012 04:24, Steven Tucker ha scritto:
> > I have had a play with libYui that is in Cauldron, so using C++,
> > to create a window and buttons. Ready to get going on the real
> > code, but waiting on the Perl bindings to hit Cauldron.
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> A little question here, libyui on sourceforge seems to be stopped at
> release 2.21.1 -about one year ago- and OpenSouse ships 2.21.4 but
> they call it as yast2-XXX, git repository does not have any way to
> build from source but using y2tool, i have a opensouse vm, so i could
> try to start from there, but is that the right way to move?
> I mean every time we have a new version we should have an opnesuse
> machine, or better we should  understand if libyui is dead?

It seems their intent is to make this library completly independent of
Suse technologies :
http://nbprashanth.wordpress.com/2011/08/18/libyui-ported/

So it should build on non-OpenSUSE machine, and if it's not the case you
can probably ask them for help.

And their git repositories on github seems to have the latest versions
tagged :
https://github.com/libyui