On Sun, 23 Sep 2012, Jelle Hermsen wrote:
>
> I can't help looking at the future of this project. I guess we're not just in
> it for getting things up and running purely for old time sake right? At one
> point it might be a good idea to split up the several applications and
> libraries that make up CDE. This way it would be easier to direct efforts and
> sub parts could be used by other projects without the need to install the
> complete desktop. Something like ToolTalk i.e could also prove interesting
> for non-CDE projects.
>
At the moment, the goal *is* to get things running on as many OS's and
platforms as possible. There is alot still to be done there.
> It seems that making this into a viable FLOSS-project will take more
>than some quick ports (swooping in with a bunch of ifdefs and the odd
>bugfix). I would love to hear what plans there are on this aspect. I
>wouldn't mind chipping, because I really like CDE, and even given the
>90's codebase there's still a lot of value there. CDE might also
>benefit from a better website. Sourceforge is nice and all for the
>repo/mailinglist and stuff, but I think it would be better to have a
>separate domain and website that would be more accommodating to new
>users. I earn part of my income as a webdev so I could definitely
>help with that. But please say if you think I'm jumping the gun
>here. In that case I'll stick to packaging for pkgsrc :)
Contributions of any sort are welcome. :) But for now, code is the
most important thing. Then packaging. There is some amazingly
anceint cruft in there, 64b systems are still a problem, and
addressing some of the 5-6 thousand warnings still present would be
handy.
dtksh is still non-functional on linux, dtinfo isn't functional on
anything, etc, etc, etc. While I don't have any objection to a new
website, I don't really consider it pressing at this point :)
But, knock yourself out if you like.
--
Jon Trulson
The Higgs Field is what make atoms matter.
-- Tom L.
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