I am for the move, Window Maker has alot of potential and can be vastly improved. Just don't go C++.
If you do decide to go official, dropping the -crm suffix would show that you support a new and improved replacement upgraded Window Maker. I've never been around for NeXT, but I eventually found Window Maker and liked it because it was simple, since I prefer simplicity. On 1/18/12, Carlos R. Mafra <[email protected]> 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. > > > -- > To unsubscribe, send mail to [email protected]. > -- Yeah... -- To unsubscribe, send mail to [email protected].
