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On 06/19/2012 09:54, Alexey I. Froloff wrote:
> On Tue, Jun 19, 2012 at 09:36:47AM -0700, Doug Barton wrote:
>> Is there a reason that you're planning to drop all non-linux support?
> I can't test it,

Of course you can. Install FreeBSD on a spare system, spare partition,
virtualbox, vmware .... the options are endless.

> the code is a mess and I'm 99% sure that it
> already outdated just because it's more that 5 years old.

Sorry, you're just plain wrong about that. It works now in FreeBSD,
virtually unmodified. See
http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/cvsweb.cgi/ports/x11/wdm/. The patches in the
files/ directory there are mostly related to the addition of a drop-down
menu to pick the WM that you want to load after you log in.
patch-src::wdm::session.c is the only one that's relevant, and it's been
in there in one form or another for almost 9 years.

Just because something is old, doesn't mean that it doesn't work. It's
also worth noting that development on WindowMaker had been stopped for
years before Carlos resumed it. That doesn't mean it didn't work either.

> If you can add support for modern non-linux-os-version, I will
> gladly accept it.

That's totally backwards. You're removing something that already works.
It would be much better if you took the perspective of the project being
cross-platform from the beginning, since that is how it always has been
(like WindowMaker itself).

... not to mention that NeXTSTEP was a Mach kernel plus BSD code, just
like OPENSTEP and OS X. :)

Doug

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