smxi
I'm enjoying the peace of the post-release days after doing another unexpectedly large and complicated #inxi release. Just rolled into #TinyCore 14.0 package pool, I am notified. I"m hoping for a longer break from heavy hacking this time around, while doing inxi stuff is interesting in most cases, it is very time consuming, and the rabbit holes it exposes tend to be far larger than expected. That was certainly the case with USB. Goal is to wait for good issues that show initiative..
May 15, 2023 at 7:27pmWeb
Show threadsmxiMay 15, 2023

I was happy to find a significant number of #inxi bugs along the way, hiding in all kinds of corners, and getting those squashed was an unexpected bonus, since every squashed bug is one less future issue.

Objectively, I'd really like to see the userbase take on a more proactive stance, and get involved more, at least in terms of finding specific parts of inxi that interest them, and contributing energy to those.

On another front, #xfce 4.19 is ready for testing, #wayland support is near!

Show threadsmxiMay 15, 2023

I am starting to feel that the time of refactoring the initial #inxi sections post > #Perl translation is winding down, and I increasingly want to see what the community itself does, or doesn't do in regards to how they use or perceive #inxi in terms of actual real time/energy put out on their part.

I'd say the lack of this effort actively is rapidly growing into the most serious problem I'm seeing, so it's tempting to just sit back and watch what happens, without trying to interject too much.

Show threadsmxiMay 15, 2023
Biggest issues longer term facing #inxi
* Zero Gnome or KDE wayland tools known, which leaves all desktop data to fall back to X tools. Never got any feedback on this, and don't use those myself, except in testing vms usually.
* quite good #wlroots support, which is fast becoming the defacto winner of the main compositor library race, thanks #sway team.
* essentially zero help with systembase/distro ID from new distros. No, I really don't want to install in vm every new distro ever made, lol.
Show threadsmxiMay 15, 2023

The recent big #slackware repos/package tools upgrade in #inxi 3.3.27 kind of closed up the last significant repo/package gap, including adding pkgtools support to --recommends as the final supported package manager type (that makes 4, and that's it, there won't be any more, other pm inxi packagers are free to follow the docs on how to create an inxi that supports their pm.).

This was also useful to see what is out there and going on in the Slackware package/repo space.

Show threadsmxiMay 15, 2023
By the way, #unit193, the #inxi packager for #debian/#ubuntu, also packages #xfce, and he's going to release a livecd so we can test xfce 4.19 wayland support. I'll post a download url here once he has it ready.