Hi, I post this to the list, so that some other possible future contributor that might get frustrated can find it in the archive :-)
I feel sad and frustrated because of the lack of feedback from the Dillo developers. I tried to improve Dillo, to add some extra features. Dillo is a nice browser and I thought that spending my time on it would be appreciated, but it seems I was wrong. I give up, I'm not going to waste my time on improving Dillo while all efforts are just ignored or told to be useless because of the "that mess is fine as it is now" attitude. If the neutral and obviously (somehow I start doubting that now) improving IO cleanup patch is ignored, then what chance do I have with cleaning up the CCC horror...
I can totally understand you. I, too, sent in patches at times. Not as big as yours, some were useful, some were not. Sometimes, it took quite some time before Jorge looked at the patches and fixed or accepted (or rejected) them. The first time, I was very excited once I submitted the patch. But as time went by and I did not hear anything, I got disappointed, until I finally got feedback - life was good again ;-) ... Anyways, that's how it works here. I got used to it. Also, since Frank and you started contributing great patches, traffic went up quite a bit. I think it's ok, since I skip some threads that I'm not interested in. :-) However, the core developers probably need to read all mails and keep track with a whole lot more patches - therefore, even they may miss one or two patches/suggestions. So, please stay with the project ... hmmm ... some semi-serious suggestion ;-) : do some christmas shopping, enjoy the holidays and wait for the feedback from the developers ...:-)
To give you an idea how bad it is:
Unfortunatly I am rather a happy user than a real developer. So, I just read and say "aha" ... Hence, I also could not comment on your cleanup of IO.c
Worst is, making a dpi isn't as simple as making a CGI, as it should be. And of course the whole dpid construction makes no sense. not really anyway: you can find all the dpi's the same way as you find the dpid... Sure, dpid has some minor advantages, but everyhting has _some_ advantages.
Currently, I'm just watching the changes to the dpi infrastructure. Sometimes, I too think "hopefully this is not getting too bloated, with two many interfaces". However, overall, I like the dpi idea. There are certain advantages: - For me, it makes it rather easy to contribute, since I need to only write a program and not to dig through dillo's code (if only I did write more than my simplistic finger plugin ;-) ...) - The concept of extra processes instead of extra code has advantages : - with the download plugin being a seperate process you can even log out of X while the download continues (e.g. over night on dial-up). - the bookmark plugin allows for a real bookark server ! This is something I am contemplating about : wouldn't it be cool if you could access the same bookamrks from different machines via a sophisticated bookmark server ? Cheers, Andreas -- **************************** NEW ADDRESS ****************************** Hamburger Sternwarte Universitaet Hamburg Gojenbergsweg 112 Tel. ++49 40 42891 4016 D-21029 Hamburg, Germany Fax. ++49 40 42891 4198