On Sat, Jun 05, 2004 at 03:45:01PM +0200, Mathieu Roy wrote:
> Goswin von Brederlow <brederlo@informatik.uni-tuebingen.de> wrote:
>
> > Lars Steinke <lss@debian.org> writes:
> >
> >> On Fri, Jun 04, 2004 at 04:51:58PM +0200, Mathieu Roy wrote:
> >>> Josip Rodin <joy@srce.hr> wrote:
> >>>
> >>> > On Fri, Jun 04, 2004 at 03:35:24PM +0200, Lars Steinke wrote:
> >>> >> Package: wnpp
> >>> >> Severity: wishlist
> >>> >>
> >>> >> * Package name : wmtemp
> >>> >> Version : 0.0.4
> >>> >> Upstream Author : Peter Gnodde <peter at gnodde dot org>
> >>> >> * URL : http://www.gnodde.org/projects/wmtemp.php
> >>> >> * License : GPL
> >>> >> Description : WindowMaker dock applet displaying lm_sensors temperature values
> >>> >>
> >>> >> Nifty small dock applet for Window Maker that continuously displays
> >>> >> CPU and case temperature by virtue of lm_sensors
> >>> >
> >>> > What's the difference between this and wmgtemp which already has a package?
> >>>
> >>> Considering the screenshots, they look radically different.
> >>
> >> Indeed, they are not the same. As I have packaged that little app for me own
> >> use I could as well let others benefit from my effort...
> >
> > Can't wmgtemp be 'themed' and both be merged into one deb? The
> > functionality sounds identicaly and I bet there is a lot of code
> > duplication in there.
>
> Since the author of wmtemp grabed code from wmgtemp (it is written on
> his webpage), I guess he tried to avoid code duplication.
>
> It is clearly not obvious that such merge would not require more work
> than just packaging the two. And it is not like if there was not
> plenty of different program doing almost the same thing in debian,
> with subtle differences.
Thanks Mathieu,
you are speaking my mind exactly. Anyway, I am not a programmer, so
merging the code of wmtemp and wmgtemp is not feasible for me and I
don't think a 14k .deb is such a waste of project resources that it is
worth the effort (of a code merge or even a lengthy discussion on
debian-devel...) - or is it ?
Hopefully no one feels offended by my upload to the ftp-master queue.
Regards,
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