On Tue, Sep 13, 2016 at 5:00 PM, Chris Daley <chebiza...@gmail.com> wrote:
> No, you'd have to really be stretching it to come to that conclusion. The > questions were fair and reasonable given that the application does indeed > appear to no longer be maintained and the maintainer(s) no longer appear to > even be subscribed to or monitoring this mailing list. > Actually not. The OP seemed assuming, starting with the subject of the email. If you want to work with Open Source then ask questions correctly: http://catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html > Dia is quite obviously abandoned, the engineering effort required to > modernize it to GTK and Python 3 being either beyond the interest or > abilities of its maintainers. > DIA is stable and doesn't need any active development, I use it every day in OS X for real-world work and it's used worldwide in several platforms. > In all fairness there should be a disclaimer on the website saying that it > is no longer being actively developed and will probably stop working > altogether in a few years. That way unsuspecting users won't invest any > more of their time in learning a program that has no future. > Please stop the FUD. If you think like this what are you doing in this list? Put your money where your mouth is and fork it to GTK and Python 3 if you think your abilities are better. There is nothing stopping you. Best, Alejandro Imass
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