On 24 January 2014 19:15, Przemek Klosowski <przemek.klosow...@nist.gov> wrote: > The term 'hiding' conveys a wrong implication that abandonware is > necessarily an embarrassment to be kept locked up in the attic.
I think that's the right implication. > I can think > of several programs that I use daily that are simple enough so that there's > not much development happening to them. For example, the 'units' program, > which I showed recently to some mechanical engineers who use Linux and they > went 'OMG this is so cool, how come we didn't know about it even though > we've been using Linux for ten years'. Right. If it's a GUI application, and is indeed awesome, I'd hope that the Fedora packager could write an AppData file, take some screenshots, include it as a source in the RPM and build a new version of the package. This way is a workaround for an abandoned-upstream but awesome/complete package. Richard. -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel Fedora Code of Conduct: http://fedoraproject.org/code-of-conduct
