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[John Donovan]

Having read the trouble one user went through compiling SALSA on FreeBSD and having identical problems on Mint, which is a Debian-based distro, are there any plans to make the source more publicly available on GitHub or similar? I am a developer and so I'm not afraid of spending a morning compiling SALSA, but it would be good to have a means to make pull requests for features and fixes.

For instance, some of the dialogs respect the current theme, but some of them force a light theme, making text invisible when using a dark theme. Or layout and font inconsistencies on some dialogs. Or the assumption that all libraries are in ~/.local unless overridden, which isn't normal CMake practice. Or generating an AppImage. The list goes on, and these are things that I would be happy to fix and contribute back.

Kind regards,

John

[Clark Hughes]

Hi John,

Thank you for your note. Yes, we have intentions to migrate the source to a GitHub instance. We're expecting to do that this calendar year, and ideally in the coming months, though there are aspects of that timeline outside my team's control. We'd be delighted to have you engage and contribute, and I understand that the zip-on-a-web-site distribution mechanism falls far short of facilitating meaningful engagement. I appreciate your encouragement to make the migration, and we'll keep you posted.

FYI we are nearing completion of the 1.16 release which includes some dependency updates (Qt etc) and is tested on ubuntu. I acknowledge that alone doesn't address your concerns, but it's probably a better starting point for modern distros than 1.15.

Regards,

Clark

[John Donovan]

Hi Clark,

Thanks for the swift response. I am looking forward to 1.6 dropping, especially if it eases compilation! As soon as you manage to get the code up in a repo somewhere, I have a good few issues I can post :)

Regards,

John