On 1/16/20 5:44 PM, Chase 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.
>
What question?
> 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.
>
Xwayland will be around for awhile... And I've been hearing about the
imminent death of X11 for a couple decades now. I'll believe it when I
see it.
I am not interested in maintaining a museum piece.
I'd like CDE to actually work and be useful. dtmail is broken and has
been for some time. Either someone takes up the cause or we remove it.
You can always fork CDE if you want to maintain a museum...
A disservice is shipping non-functional and or exploitable software that
no one wants to fix.
-jon
> 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
>>
>
--
Jon Trulson
"Entropy. It isn't what it used to be."
-- Sheldon
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