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Re: RFS: iwtan-gui



Marco,

On Fri, Jun 24, 2011 at 11:19:43PM +0200, Marco Cornolti wrote:
> On 24/06/2011 22:03, Michael Tautschnig wrote:
> > Hi Marco,
> > 
> > [...]
> >> This is a demonstrative GUI for the IWTAN library (see my previous mail
> >> in this list). It is built upon the QT library. It contains a binary
> >> iwtan-gui and its manpage.
> >>
> > [...]
> > 
> > Before even starting to possible review this package I'm seriously wondering why
> > these are separate source packages. Why aren't both the GUI and the library
> > built from the same source package? As is, I would expect a number of dependency
> > problems to appear!?
> > 
> > Best regards,
> > Michael
> > 
> 
> Hello,
> thank you for considering reviewing this package. I have separated the
> GUI and the library because they are actually separated projects. The
> idea is that, despite they were both coded by me, the gui could be
> written (and, in the future, mantained) by someone else just using the API.
> I'm not sure that's a good reason, and i can merge the two source
> packages if it's considered cleaner.
> The point is that I've written the GUI just to give an example of how to
> exploit some of the library features (even though the gui is thought to
> be nice and useful), and I wanted to keep the example and library codes
> separate.

That rationale sounds fine to have two projects. Have you considered making
it two separate source packages then?

-- 
Best regards,
Kilian

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