Questions about Atomic vs yaaic

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Atomic: an IRC client from the ashes of yaaic

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Questions about Atomic vs yaaic #89

Open paytonq-zz opened 9 years ago

paytonq-zz commented 9 years ago

Wasn't sure where else to put this, but I have a couple questions for @indrora regarding Atomic vs yaaic:

Are Atomic and yaaic going in different directions, or are there plans to merge them back together eventually?
Are new features commonly interchanged between the two? For example, will my halfop addition end up in yaaic?
Currently yaaic is in the play store (though I can't install it because it is set to Android 5.0+ for some reason), do you have an ETA on getting Atomic into the play store?

indrora commented 9 years ago

atomic and yaaic are going in different directions.
Unlikely; You can try your luck and backport your patch into the yaaic tree, but it's at this point very much separated.
I don't have a current ETA on the availability of Atomic in the Play store, however this summer is my personal goal.

indrora commented 9 years ago

To clarify:

Atomic started as a "Let's fix some things in yaaic that I personally don't like." Things like color schemes and certain aspects of handling the UI. Subtle tweaks built up and eventually, I said "I haven't published this work anywhere, let's clone it, crunch it down and dump it on Github." And yeah, that's how this came to be.

Since then, I've changed build systems (twice), done CI testing, gotten a lot of things organized overall, moved from Eclipse to Android Studio, focused on usability to a certain degree and really diverged from where yaaic is.

I've managed to get Atomic standing on its own. The git histories are so radically different, you'd have to rewind all the way back nearly a year of development before you would get to a shared commit.

paytonq-zz commented 9 years ago

Ok, thanks for the info, that clears up a lot! I think I will continue contributing here (if needed/wanted) since Atomic is what I use.

rodneyrod commented 9 years ago

@paytonq AFAIK Yaaic is pushing new code again, but only targeting Android 5.0+, and Atomic is updating the existing Yaaic codebase as a fork but still retaining the originals support of legacy Android versions. I also don't know what features the new Yaaic codebase is employing because I don't have a phone that runs a version of Android that new.