Future of Alkimia

[Jack]

On 2018.04.29 11:02, Thomas Capricelli wrote:
> On 28/04/2018 20:31, Christian David wrote:
> > Hello Ralf,
> >
> > Am Donnerstag, 12. April 2018, 17:09:16 CEST schrieb Ralf Habacker:
> >> Another option would be make it more interesting for other  
> projects by
> >> adding more stuff into.
> >
> > Do not get me wrong, I still think the original ideas are very good  
> [1].
> > However, there were no development on features for eight years, why  
> should it
> > happen now or in future? Also I think we should think like: there  
> is a
> > problem, this should be solved with a library. Not the other way  
> round: we
> > want a library, how can we get people to use it?
> 
> (note : I'm not a kmm dev)
> 
> 
> I agree with that. Sure a lib is great and all, but better wait for a
> real need to extract useful stuff from kmm into a library. Currently
> this really seems unneeded. Extracting some code into a lib is not  
> very
> difficult, even less so if you know precisely what is required to be
> shared by several projects.
> 
> Until then... your gain is that you don't need to maintain a separate
> code base, separate release, porting, ... And you remove some pain for
> packagers.

Unless I misunderstand something, Alkimia is already a separate  
library.  I think the question is whether to keep it separate, and  
hopefully increase the number of apps using it.

Jack