Does anyone know if the contributors of this fork ever talked to the current maintainers of mc? Since the fork of mc about 10 years ago, there has come a lot of new features and bugfixes into mc the filemanager. I would assume they are open for contributions.
Anyone, I really love this Midnight Commander, It is maybe my most important and most used piece of software :)
Yes, and there was a kind of dispute about this. The gist of it can be found in this ticket: https://midnight-commander.org/ticket/4187
EDIT: Interesting read also about the pros and cons of Slang2 as scripting language, some history and the job of maintaining mc in general …
So there is also a plugin system in Lua waiting, it just needs someone to care for it. The S-lang plugin system will not go in mc itself since they prefer to get rid of S-lang alltogether, in favor of ncurses as screen library. This same author had a Python plugin system first, but scrapped it in favor of this S-lang plugin system.
And yes, I can imagine they are looking more for people doing maintenance instead of innovators. They do seem genuine nice guys though.
> gee, look - a 3rd contender for a scripting integration ... and the 2nd from you, heh. i guess you're retracting #4136 then?
> how does this compare in size with moofie's lua stuff? that's what the integration question mostly hinges on, i think.
> according to trac's diff view, the indentation in the patch is somewhat random. how did you even manage to do that ...? :}
>> Am I doing something wrong?
> yes - not doing enough meditation. :D no, seriously, you need patience. a lot of it.
Edit: and is submitting at least some code upstream e.g. https://midnight-commander.org/ticket/4160