I don’t care about dtbuilder, but dtmail is not very useful.

On Thursday, January 16, 2020, Chase via cdesktopenv-devel <
cdesktopenv-devel@lists.sourceforge.net> wrote:

> I guess I'll take the silence as a no to my previous question, though as a
> programmer I was never good at taking social queues haha.
>
> I feel like the same could be said for this entire project, especially
> with wayland right around the corner, but people still like their niches.
> We should keep in mind that this is a historical project, and I think that
> removing things that could be fixed and that had a purpose within the
> desktop would be a disservice.
>
> Thank you for your time,
> -Chase
>
>
> ‐‐‐‐‐‐‐ Original Message ‐‐‐‐‐‐‐
> On Wednesday, January 15, 2020 7:26 PM, Jon Trulson <j...@radscan.com>
> wrote:
>
> On 1/15/20 5:41 PM, Richard L. Hamilton wrote:
>
> I think I once compiled a non-recent version of open-source CDE for Solaris 
> 11 (SPARC), and it mostly worked, although dtmail was definitely unusable.
>
>
> dtmail is useless.  So much work would need to go into it ,to bring it up
> to modern standards, and I don't see anyone stepping up to do it.
>
> I would like to 'retire' it.
>
> dtappbuilder is another one that seemed cool at the time, but who uses
> it?  Who *would* use it today if it worked well?
>
> That's another one I'd like to 'retire'.
>
>
> --
> Jon Trulson
>
>   "Entropy.  It isn't what it used to be."
>                            -- Sheldon
>
>
>
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