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Attract-Mode Support => General => Topic started by: cosmicdan on April 05, 2018, 06:15:03 PM

Title: Development status?
Post by: cosmicdan on April 05, 2018, 06:15:03 PM

I hope this doesn't start any drama, but...

...is Attract-Mode dying/abandoned? I'm a bit worried that Andrew has had absolutely no activity on GitHub for three months. PR's and issues are piling up too.

I'm worried :(

I tried out Launchbox recently since I got time to work on my setup again, but it's really not as nice. It's laggy and a lot of the features are behind a pay wall.

If anybody knows what's going on, would love to hear it.

Thanks.

Title: Re: Development status?
Post by: jedione on April 06, 2018, 07:05:05 AM

i think its just a bit slower moving,  im not woried too mutch

 ;)

Title: Re: Development status?
Post by: keilmillerjr on April 06, 2018, 07:06:23 AM

Quote from: jedione on April 06, 2018, 07:05:05 AM

i think its just a bit slower moving,  im not woried too mutch

 ;)

We have a good team here. Just need some pull requests accepted. :)

Title: Re: Development status?
Post by: cosmicdan on April 06, 2018, 04:36:33 PM

I sure hope so. I've been considering making my own game front-end (yes, yet another one) only written in Java since it's what I'm best at - so much easier to understand than C++ - but that's a lot of work. There's only so much contribution I can do - you may have seen the small issues from CosmicDan in the last version, that's pretty much my extent of C++ knowledge heh.

Attract is a pretty stable (and FAST) front-end though, so I will instead work on some library-management tools I had ideas for :) Mostly inspired by my own experiences of tedious tasks, and some issues others have been having. Perhaps an all-purpose artwork/metadata scraper that supports many of the sources we have out there.

Feel free to send me any requests of things you think could greatly benefit via a third-party tool (NB: it will be Java, but last I checked the Raspberry Pi could run full Java runtime OK). All open-sourced on GitHub of course.

EDIT: Learning Squirrel might be a good idea, it seems a nice language. I could integrate some functions inside Attract-Mode itself then.

Title: Re: Development status?
Post by: verion on April 07, 2018, 03:51:04 AM

I wouldn't worry about it. I literally didn't have time to touch my themes for more than 2 months straight. That's just life.

Title: Re: Development status?
Post by: calle81 on April 10, 2018, 07:50:15 AM

A bunch of awesome commits today :)