In message <1253105573.5804.236.ca...@duiker>
John-Mark Bell <[email protected]> wrote:
>>> Future major changes to the way in which the core works are liable to
>>> require corresponding changes in platform frontends. If any given
>>> frontend has no maintainer, then the chances of the required changes
>>> being made are very slim indeed. The alternative is that all development
>>> stops. Unsurprisingly, we're unwilling to do that.
>>>
>> Can you not just take some time out and modify the RO front end?
> That doesn't solve the problem -- the RISC OS frontend has no active
> maintainer. I've been taking sometime out and modifying the RISC OS
> frontend for the last 2.5 years. I no longer have time to do that.
You said "the RISC OS frontend has had almost no development for the
last 2.5 years". Now you're saying you've been modifying it for 2.5
years. Do you have time to do this or is something else more appealing
about the other platforms?
Andrew
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