Todd C. Miller wrote: > On Mon, 02 Nov 2015 09:16:07 +0000, Nicholas Marriott wrote: > > > I looked briefly at this and it wouldn't be that hard. However, while it > > would be fantastic to clean up all the crap from less, it isn't clear if > > Garrett D'Amore is going to be keeping his fork up to date - if he > > doesn't then we are then left with a much harder job to merge later > > changes from the original less. Unless we are happy to fork and maintain > > less ourselves without an upstream. > > Would it really be so bad to consider less/more feature complete > and only apply bug fixes? The only place I expect large changes > would be in the UTF-8 support.
I would say less has reached the point in its lifecycle where it can only get bigger and worse, so there's some merit to putting it on a diet.
