On 8 November 2011 07:28, Suraj N. Kurapati <sun...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Thu 03 Nov 2011 09:57:19 AM PDT, Kurt H Maier wrote: >> There is nothing "suckless" about any aspect of modern wmii > > I thought Suckless folks were enthusiastic about Plan9 technologies; > has this changed? If so, why?
The overall concept of 9P is sane for certain use cases, but it doesn't fit very well into the X11 window manager world. > And how is "modern" wmii different from its, let's say, "pre-modern" > phase? From my view, it still uses the Plan9 protocol and the Plan9 > approach of exposing a virtual filesystem for operation by the user. Yes, however wmii is cursed. Its code base has grown by factor 3 or 4 in terms of SLOC, whereas its functionality has stalled. Cheers, Anselm
