ncdu: NCurses Disk Usage (an updated fork)

7 points by rcalixte

taschmex

Some relevant context is that the original author, yorhel, passed away earlier this year.

rcalixte

This project carries significance for me, not only as a learning resource but also for future projects which is why I've forked and will aim to maintain it for the foreseeable future. I'm still getting familiar with the codebase beyond what was required to update it so any potential issues will be handled on a best-effort basis. I didn't see any actionable issues in the issue tracker but that doesn't mean there aren't things that can be implemented or improved upon. I aim to implement some form of CI/CD at some point as well.

sanqui

I'm a ncdu user, so I'm excited to see it updated. It would be nice if any updates you make eventually land in Debian and Fedora.
- rcalixte
  
  Debian is still stuck on packaging Zig (1 2) so it might take a while longer there unfortunately. Fedora is already packaging an alternate fork of this project as well. (I've been aware of at least the one other fork but didn't agree with some decisions made, hence this fork.)
donio

Could you tell us a little about the post-fork work you have done so far? The commit messages are not very descriptive and some of the diffs are quite big. On a quick glance it seems to be focused on keeping up with Zig language and library changes?
- rcalixte
  
  That's about it. The noisiest parts of the diffs are zig fmt changes. If you view them with whitespace changes disabled, it should be easier to parse. I think the original project was mostly feature complete. I want to update the README with installation instructions and so on at some point as well. Future projects based on this project will do more opinionated changes.