Lev, I just don't understand what the big issue with autotools is. We gutted a lot of the legacy OS code a few years ago (ultrix, unixware, even weird ones like uxpds), but if someone were to want these platforms back, I feel that using autotools would be an even better solution, since autotools supports building and feature testing on all these platforms, and instead of having big chunks of ifdef OS you can just implement features tests, whereas imake stopped receiving updates in 2000, and imake in general stopped being supported in 2014. I was the one that really spearheaded that we use autotools since it has a much larger platform support base than cmake or meson do, and I did so in case someone really wanted to bring back the old platform support.
I'd really like you to see the light on this one, if theres one thing that CDE doesn't need, its a fork. Thank you for your time, -Chase ‐‐‐‐‐‐‐ Original Message ‐‐‐‐‐‐‐ On Tuesday, January 19, 2021 10:52 PM, Lev via cdesktopenv-devel <cdesktopenv-devel@lists.sourceforge.net> wrote: > Hello, > > I intend on porting CDE/Motif 2.1 to SVR4 and possibly other niche platforms, > so I’ve set up a branch at https://github.com/lev105/cde-imake/ so as to not > interfere with the good work here to get CDE up to date with the autotools > suite, etc. > > Without being able to test on a SVID3-compliant OS, it’s difficult for me to > be able to gauge which changes risk worsening compatibility with older > systems, and CDE is a wonderful, lightweight desktop for them. Like a lot of > other folks, this will be something I balance in a small amount of free time, > but I hope these efforts will be useful for others. I’ve already got fairly > extensive changes to support compiling CDE on platforms without XPG > internationalization, and I am going to try getting fixes upstream for CDE > and ksh93 (looks like musl support has already been committed) if they fit > within their respective roadmaps. Maybe I could adopt imake if there wouldn’t > be any objection? > > Kind regards, > Lev > > cdesktopenv-devel mailing list > cdesktopenv-devel@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/cdesktopenv-devel _______________________________________________ cdesktopenv-devel mailing list cdesktopenv-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/cdesktopenv-devel
