On Mon, May 19, 2008 at 07:32:37PM +0100, David Tweed wrote: > On Mon, May 19, 2008 at 10:18 AM, Henrik Holst <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Sun, May 18, 2008 at 10:40:39PM +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > >> I've been waiting for the code movement to slow down before looking at > >> it again. Can I just confirm dwm will still technically work linked > >> against libxinerama, just doesn't have any special processing for it. > >> (As Jimmy mentions, if you haven't got a monitor buying a widescreen > >> one makes sense but if you've already got one it's easier to > >> requisition/buy another than replace it with a new one.) > >> > > > > Is it really a problem of code being developed? Or is it a problem with > > a stable API*, for patches and such? Maybe that is what dwm needs in > > dwm-5.x, a promise of a stable api and workflow. > > It's partly that over the last 6 months or so I've been incredibly > busy and partly that there have been lots of short-lived refactorings > (in the sense they then got refactored differently) without much > actual core functionality changes, so I didn't really want to spend > much time porting stuff again and again. I don't have a problem using > a patched 4.4 until things settle down again, and I actually support > experimentation with features to see if they're useful. If I had a > comment, I'd suggest there have perhaps been more changes to try > different code aesthetics on the same functionality which I see as a > bit of a distraction. But hey, it's Anselm's wm and he's been dwm > writing code lately which I haven't so it's his choice :-)
I believe that things will settle with 5.0, because I already focus more on st. Kind regards, -- Anselm R. Garbe >< http://www.suckless.org/ >< GPG key: 0D73F361
