On Wed, 18 Jan 2012 12:44:24 +0000, Carlos R. Mafra wrote:
I think the status quo of Window Maker development (whatever that
means) could be improved if both the Window Maker homepage and the
wikipedia stop saying that the latest "stable" release of Window
Maker is the 6-year-old 0.92.0, which has known bugs (some of them
are fixed in wmaker-crm).
A lot of people who use Window Maker no longer runs 0.92.0 for a
_long_ time already because of stability. So those sources of
information are not reflecting the truth(tm).
Some time ago John Robinson, who is in charge of windowmaker.org and
has received the blessing of Alfredo and Dan to say what's the
official
Window Maker, asked me if I'd like to move wmaker-crm to being the
official Window Maker.
Back then, I refused.
Not because I'm attached to the -crm suffix, but because it made
things
simpler for me if I didn't have to worry about messing up with the
reputation that Window Maker has. If (or when) I screw up things,
it's wmaker-crm who is to blame.
But I changed my mind and Robinson agreed about making an official
release based on wmaker-crm, and we'll call it 0.95.1 soon.
So I've just pushed all the latest patches to #master and I'd like
people to test it and report back.
I'm not trained in making official releases, so I accept patches
changing the library version and things like that. Patches fixing
bugs or cleaning up the code are always accepted :-)
If anyone is against this move, please say so.
IMO wmaker-crm should be now the new Window Maker. The original (not
old, original) version has some bugs, problems and nobody is updating
it. For this reason I updated the original version in Debian to the new
wmaker-crm.
But, I think that the original version should continue in the webpage,
as historical release, with a link (probably out of the table, to avoid
confusions).
Thanks.
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