[haiku-development] Re: Tracker broken

  • From: "Axel Dörfler" <axeld@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: haiku-development@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Fri, 02 Oct 2009 13:52:22 +0200 CEST

"Alexandre Deckner" <alex@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> I've got a few unfinished changes locally on my branch, namely a 
> modularization of the pose layouting system. I stopped working on the 
> branch a few weeks before the alpha and have been doing my best to 
> test 
> and polish the release.
> I'm now experimenting a new approach (from scratch), a very 
> abstracted 
> (and lite) poseview in a separate test app to accelerate the 
> development of new ideas. It's ridiculously small, and looks very 
> promising to me. While a necessary learning experience, working on 
> the 
> old tracker code is really slowing me down at this level of changes 
> and 
> i feel it is the latest days of the good old codebase (well poseview 
> at 
> least).
> Concerning the current status, appart from a few crashing tickets 
> that 
> i've been trying to tackle for a few months, knowing all the bugs 
> that 
> have been fixed (and many present since the r5 era), i objectively 
> think it is in a very decent shape (on this revision at least ;) 
> Probably a few last fixes are in order, but i'm starting to think 
> that 
> soon will be the moment to say "OpenTracker, so long, and thanks for 
> all the fish!"

But this work will continue in the refactor branch?
And, to summarize, is it time to merge the branch changes back to trunk 
before I look into the problems I have?

Bye,
   Axel.


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