On Tue, Mar 10, 2009 at 10:34:38PM +0000, Mikhael Goikhman wrote:
> [Start of friendly mode.]
> 5) To make Thomas focus more on constructive things and less on
> destructive. :-) Really, I didn't see an fvwm developer who wanted to
> remove or break so many things in fvwm in so short period. :-) It
> should not be this way.
I'm really with Thomas here and on all the other issues. We have
loads of unnecessary dependencies and features that nobody is
willing to maintain:
* deb generation: unmaintained
* rpm generation: unmaintained
* html documentation: unmaintained
* perllib: unmaintained
* FvwmProxy: unfinished and unmaintained
* FvwmRearrage: not used by anybody I know
* FvmwGtk: mostly useless because it has nothing to offer that
fvwm can not do in a different way; artificial dependency on
gtk
* FvwmGtkDebug: useful, but the dependency on gtk really annoys
me. It should never have been part of the distribution with
that dependency: it's simply not cost efficient. Could have
been written without gtk and without a gui.
In my eyes all of this should be removed from the core
distribution unless someone shows up who is willing to maintain
this stuff for a long time. If need be, they can be put in a
supporting distribution.
> going to be removed without even slight doubts makes me too nervous
> for no reason. I think there is a place for many options for everyone.
> Let's try to increase the options, not to decrease them.
I think we should do quite the opposite.
> As someone who is responsible for this subdirectory I will speak with
> Manoj directly, and we will come to the solution (just not today).
Ciao
Dominik ^_^ ^_^
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Dominik Vogt
