[GTALUG] Re-implementing xbattbar in Python
Lennart Sorensen
lsorense at csclub.uwaterloo.ca
Tue Jan 14 11:15:10 EST 2020
On Sun, Jan 12, 2020 at 10:53:16AM -0500, Giles Orr via talk wrote:
> That's not the worst of it: I thought "why did he use 'perlcompat'
> just for 'die' and 'getopts'?" So I replaced those commands with the
> Python equivalents and removed the library. Only to discover that
> "x11utils" requires "perlcompat". Seriously? And "pip3" doesn't even
> know it's a dependency so you have to install it by hand. Kinda
> unimpressive.
x11utils and perlcompat did appear like they were by the same author,
and I guess they are.
Seems like they are modules written by a perl fan that is having issues
getting used to python. Looks like the same person did x11utils,
perlcompat, xpymon, xpywm, xpylog and a few other things.
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Len Sorensen
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