On Mon, 22 Jul 2024 16:25:11 +0300,
Liam Proven wrote:
> https://github.com/phkaeser/wlmaker/tree/main

FWIW, this has been packaged by Alex (member of the Debian GNUstep
team) and it's waiting in Debian's NEW queue[1].

[1] https://ftp-master.debian.org/new/wlmaker_0.3-1.html

(I am not sure why he decided to put in under the gnustep-team
umbrella as it has nothing to do with GNUstep, but nevermind.)

> The next version of Fedora will not include X.org by default. Ubuntu
> will follow close behind.

Fedora is not relevant to GNUstep, it only ships the core packages.
If Ubuntu are planning to remove X, they'll have to slaughter a lot of
packages that some people use, often daily.  This will make Ubuntu
even a more stripped-down version of Debian than it already is.

> It's happening and it's going.

I think you put too much weight in this Wayland stuff.  I remember
when that project was announced, it was like a revolution that was
supposed to fix all of X's problems and to mark the beginning of the
end of X.  Nothing like that happened, it introduced some new problems
and was only adopted by projects who sycophanitacally follow
novelties.

You should realize that things like X and TeX are ancient beasts (they
predate GNU and the GNU Project is considered ancient, by software
"timing standards") so I guess they will be still alive even after all
of this list's subscribers are deceased.

> It has long seemed to me that the GNUstep project and people are in
> denial about what GNUstep is and its future. This is already having
> negative repercussions for the project.

Like you, I'm not a programmer so I try to avoid teaching the core
GNUstep developers what they should do in the future with their
project.  They do the main job so it's up for them to decide, and
that's how it should be.  Like you, I don't like some directions the
project is taking, and that's making me feel uneasy, but I guess I'll
have to live with it.


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