All right... I'm finally back from my wedding, honeymoon and
miscellaneous family travels. Faced with a deluge of a couple
hundred e-mails, I'm not even going to bother trying to respond
to individual messages (heck, I'm not even going to bother
_reading_ a good chunk of them... the same arguments have popped
up on this list since time immememorial).
Blackbox is still under development (at least, it was until I left
the country, and I plan on starting up again tomorrow). At the
moment the current codebase doesn't compile (well, not much of it),
but I'm putting something together for a snapshot release sometime
soon (let's say sometime in the next month... that should give me
some wiggle room).
Just to warn folks beforehand -- this is not going to be a very sexy
release. Most of the changes are internal -- we're talking bugfixes
(this includes ANSI/ISO compatibility), perfomance improvements, and
a reorganizing of some of the core code. There will be a cherry or
two on top, though (like a dry run of key-navigable menus).
Once that's been given a shake-down, snapshot releases will pick
up again. The Blackbox protocol will be stripped out and NET WM Spec
support gradually added in. At the very least this will break
bbkeys and bbpager, which means I doubt folks will be breaking down
the door to give those snapshots a run.
When all this is done, the plan is to have some future incarnation
of bbkeys included and compiled with blackbox, though still (and
probably always) as a separate program.
Hmm. Did I miss anything? Any questions?
Jeff Raven
