On Mon, Oct 17, 2016 at 11:20:25PM +0100, Dominik Vogt wrote: > While the enthusiasm to remove outdated stuff (strokes, Xinerama, > colourmaps, old parser etc.) is an important step towards a > maintainable and nice future fvwm3, there are certainly some old > systems still running that use some obscure features. > > In order to not alienate long time users from fvwm we may need to > make a clean cut at some time: > > * Up to version X, the old feature set and syntax is supported > "forever". There won't be any new features anymore, but if > need be, we'll look into fixes like to new library versions and > such, so that the old version will continue to run on old boxes. > Patches fixing such problems are welcome, and once in a while a > new maintenance release is made. > > * From version X+1 onwards, no guarantees are made about > continued support of obscure features, until there's an > official fvwm-3.0. > > Is that doable? WIth X == 2.6.7? (Of course this is all depends > on people actually doing that work.)
It's doable from a code/maintenance point of view, yes. But I hope that there's no real expectation that developers or future developers (chance would be a fine thing!) who might be working on this mythical fvwm-3, should care about fvwm-legacy. Oh, and I love the idea---but I am incredibly skpetical about it coming to fruition, given that there are so few people developing fvwm these days. But, yeah, I'm all for this. -- Thomas Adam
