On Mon, Oct 28, 2019 at 08:10:16AM -0700, Chris Bennett wrote: > On Mon, Oct 28, 2019 at 09:38:20AM +0100, Marc Espie wrote: > > On Fri, Oct 25, 2019 at 05:35:27PM +0000, flauenroth wrote: > > > Apparently not just theo is using fvwm after all. :) > > > > Considering all the people using it, it would be great if someone were to > > look at the enhancements of fvwm2 (wrong license, so not base) and backport > > some of these to our elderly fvwm. > > > > Specifically, fvwm in base does NOT deal well with multi-screen setups, > > among > > other things. It's missing all kinds of extensions that the X server > > provides > > these days. > > > > Very much less than perfect experience. > > > > I have fvwm2 from ports on every machine that runs OpenBSD. No choice about > > that. > > > > (and I stick with fvwm* because the configuration options for mixing > > keyboard > > keys with mouse behavior do NOT exist anywhere else) > > > > MASTER_SITES= ftp://ftp.fvwm.org/pub/fvwm/version-2/ isn't valid now. > > Now on github: > > https://github.com/fvwmorg/fvwm/releases > > How is backporting done correctly in a case like this? > I assume in order to add it to base? > Or is that not possible? > > Seems like a good question maybe for other base software too. > Is there already a thread talking about this?
You got to figure out the missing features, and rewrite them "from scratch". You can't actually borrow the code, because the licence makes it impossible. Either that, or you convince the xorg project to go back on their choice to change the licence, which is going to be more or less impossible.
