> On Jun 18, 2015, at 7:47 AM, David du Colombier <0in...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> so why do we have so many un-coordinated versions of drawterm? > > Because the original repository is hosted on Bitbucket (and Google Code), > and Russ won't accept to review changes on Rietveld anymore.
For the same reason there are so many forks of everything else, everyone is [wants to be] a diva. But in reality, the multiple targets (X11 on various platforms/versions, OSX pre- and post-Carbon, iOS, and Windows) all have differences that don’t always integrate into the same build system. I tried to keep the drawterm- cocoa port viable across all targets, but after a migration of more current libraries over from Plan 9 I never completed the X11 or Windows integration to get those build. Never completed for two reasons, I don’t have a Windows environment to build/test, nor are any of my X11 targets consistent: one build on an old Ubuntu works, a newer Ubuntu doesn’t, nor the differing versions of X11 on my various FreeBSD releases I can test. And don’t even get me started on the differing distros for Linux or testing for CDE/GNOME/ KDE/Unity/Xfce… I’ve never pushed the X11 changes to support rio resizing as I just don’t have a host (or time) to test. > So, I've simply moved it to GitHub. Maybe it is nice that Git is winning the DVCS wars. That said, there needs to be an effort to port that beast to Plan 9 for those of us who still use that platform for research and development. -jas
