Hi all,
Matthew T. and I have had a conversation about imake and whether or not it
would be a good idea to merge with master or not. After doing a bit of
discussion, I sent a message to alan coopersmith to see if anyone at the imake
team would be willing to look at our code and help us merge, to which he
revealed to me that there is no imake team, and there hasn't been one since
2014, and it is very unlikely that anyone else will pick up the project (he
even went as far as to consider appointing me as the maintainer of imake). So
if it wasn't official already, it is now, we are maintaining both imake and
CDE. I briefly considered moving to meson, however Matthew informed me that
this would severely limit compatibility with legacy operating systems, and it
looks like Cmake has that same problem. So the way I see it, we have two
options going forward, we either move towards the gnu autotools, or we merge
with master and continue from where they left off on our own. I was considering
posting some patches that would sync us with upstream a bit, but I don't know
how much they would be worth with this news (one of them enabling cross
compiling).
How should we continue from here? Thoughts?
Thank you for your time,
-Chase
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