Rufus wrote:
So I really don't get why they've knuckled under and merely imported TB and FF code instead of maintaining their own, based on that code...this is all open source, right?
Right, it is. And even maintaining al bunch of code you don't really know and which is sometimes written in strange ways is a quite hard job, have you ever tried that?
The SeaMonkey project mostly consists of people who have never worked on many parts of the code that the old suite had, most of us worked only in user interface ("frontend") parts and never in the platform code ("backend") those interfaces build on, so we are simply unable to maintain it.
Our only chance of keeping SeaMonkey alive at all was to reduce the amount of unknown code we cannot maintain and replace it with code that is being maintained by someone else - which meant switching to the newer Mozilla platform, of which e.g. the new form management code is a part of.
Now, that we have switched to that base and can let the old stuff die, we can look into ways to improve the newly acquired things and those parts of code that we have in the application now and should be able to maintain.
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