[cdesktopenv-devel] GDE, the GNU Desktop Environment (Was: Re: OS X and Autotools)

2014-11-18 Thread Bruno Félix Rezende Ribeiro
Hello Steven! Em Mon, 17 Nov 2014 23:54:43 -0800 Steven Edwards escreveu: > I couldn't find any information on if anyone else is working on > either of these but I've started hacking on it in my local tree and > am making pretty good progress. I sent a message a few days ago to this very mailin

Re: [cdesktopenv-devel] GDE, the GNU Desktop Environment (Was: Re: OS X and Autotools)

2014-11-18 Thread Steven Edwards
Hi Bruno, On Tue, Nov 18, 2014 at 3:43 AM, Bruno Félix Rezende Ribeiro < oitofe...@gnu.org> wrote: > I sent a message a few days ago to this very mailing list > expressing my desire of migrating CDE's build system to GNU > Autotools[0]. Unfortunately, CDE developers don't seem very receptive > t

Re: [cdesktopenv-devel] GDE, the GNU Desktop Environment (Was: Re: OS X and Autotools)

2014-11-18 Thread Richard L. Hamilton
Copyleft vs permissive license arguments get in the way of making good technical decisions IMO - except when the distinction is needed for NON-ideological arguments. Backwards compatibility has a couple of points to commend it: * not alienating existing base in the hopes of pursuing a new base *