On 1/19/21 9:52 PM, Lev via cdesktopenv-devel 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?
Hi, I guess I just don't know why you want to stick with Imake, but hey - knock yourself out. I'm not sure what you mean by 'adopt imake' though. I really do intend to get rid of it altogether as soon as I can. autotools has it's issues, but imake is seriously dead technology. The autotools-conversion branch already builds most of CDE (aside from dtinfo, dtksh and the documentation subsystem). I would think getting that going on these older systems would be more fruitful, but of course what you want to do is up to you :) Please feel free to submit patches for CDE, they are good quality. Don't worry about any further ksh93 issues though - I intend to incorporate Chase's ksh replacement into master soon. I am sure the ksh93 maintainer would appreciate your contributions. Thanks! -jon > Kind regards, > Lev > > _______________________________________________ > cdesktopenv-devel mailing list > cdesktopenv-devel@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/cdesktopenv-devel -- Jon Trulson "Entropy. It isn't what it used to be." -- Sheldon
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