On Sat, Aug 08, 2009 at 05:32:16PM -0400, Predrag Punosevac wrote:
> Landry Breuil <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> > On Sat, Aug 08, 2009 at 04:22:08PM +0200, Tobias Ulmer wrote:
> > > First try that doesn't crash on amd64 within seconds.
> > > 
> > > Removes the most evil things gcc warns about and moves malloc out of the
> > > signal handler. There is without a doubt, much more to repair...
> >
> > For sure.. with your patches, it still explodes on sparc64 at the same 
> > point..
> > volunteers for code reading & fixing & forwarding patches upstream needed :)
> >
> > Landry
> 
> I would like to bring to your attention two facts:
> 
> 1. Somebody did try to port vifm to OpenBSD few years ago. There is 
> the reason vifm is still not in ports.

Funny, looking at the archives... i found out it was myself who already
ported it :)

> 2. Good luck with fixing things upstream. My fellow Tucsonian who 
> coded vifm did that in order to learn programming language C :-)
> He is retired these days so am not sure if he is interested in 
> brushing up his programming skills.

Well - we can still keep the patches local anyway, or someone can still
take over maintenance of it - thanks free software :)

Landry

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