On Tue, 2 Aug 2016, Myles Mc Manus wrote: > As someone who uses CDE everyday, I really appreciate all the work that > has been done to fix bugs and make the whole thing more stable. Some > really outstanding work has been done, and I am very grateful for it.
It really surprised me to see both Motif and CDE get open sourced. I'm very pleasantly surprised and like you, grateful. > [...] my suggestion for the next Herculean Task would be to fix > installation. Both at my job and at home I have access to a fairly large number of platforms. I'd be happy to provide some more testing if that helps. I also package a lot of software (job related) into binary packages for older platforms. I use EPM a lot for that task and it's an excellent resource. It allows you to build very clean packages that can easily be installed or un-installed using "shar"-like functionality. The packages aren't in "native" format which actually can help prevent collisions with dependencies. I typically will use a custom install prefix, and CDE seems happy residing in /usr/dt or /opt/cde. So, that might work out swimmingly. EPM Project https://www.msweet.org/projects.php?Z2 Another outrageously cool thing EPM can do is create multi-platform packages that "just work" on multiple OSes. > Ideally, CDE should be installable from repositories. Yep. That's tougher because sometimes you need political buy-in from the maintainers, though I doubt CDE would find that hard to garner. There is also the option to create a dedicated CDE repo for Yum/Apt/Zypper (Fedora/Debian/SuSE). We'd just need dedicated hosting somewhere. I have experience with setting up Yum, Apt, PPA, Zypper, and others on the server side. Also HPUX still has a free and well organized resource in the HP-UX Porting and Archive Centre and it's "depothelper" tool. Also, as I mentioned pkgsrc covers a wide variety of OS's, but it's got a bit of a learning curve, too. > But to substantially increase the user base, I think a move away from > "here's a bunch of source code and some arcane instructions" should be > included on the to-do list. I totally agree. I'm in the same boat. I can do it with no sweat, but to spread the word it's more advantageous to be easier & accessible. Also with some old-school cache' that CDE possesses, having someone create a press release from the project when you hit major release milestones or ports/packages will help distribution as a lot of geek-news would run the story. -Swift ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ cdesktopenv-devel mailing list cdesktopenv-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/cdesktopenv-devel
