2012-06-18, Monsieur Alexey I. Froloff a ecrit:
With Alexey Voinov's permission I am now upstream maintainer of WINGs Display Manager, also known as WDM. I am going to do major source cleanup, apply ALT Linux patches, add systemd support and drop all unsupported targets.
This is great news. I used WDM for a long time but had to switch to SLiM because WDM was crashing in recent versions of Fedora. I would love to go back to WDM.
https://github.com/raorn/wdm (ALT patches mostly). Right now I am cleaning up the autocrap stuff, next step is to reindent the code and drop all non-linux support. So if someone is interested in running WDM on a different platform - please contact me and provide patches for you favorite OS. I am not evil - I just don't want to support something that I can't test.
I think this is the right approach. You couldn't possibly test all the various UNIXes and UNIX-like OSes (e.g. Solaris, AIX, HP-UX, IRIX, Plan 9, FreeBSD, SCO OpenServer -- and that's just the tip of the iceberg) even if you wanted to. I suppose it's easy for advocates of the smaller OSes to be generous with your time and resources, but since you're volunteering to work on this project then what *you* want to do takes precedence. And it makes sense to focus on Linux, whose user base dwarfs those of the smaller OSes. Get it working on Linux and anything else can be handled by patches submitted by those who have the time and resources to test on their favorite OS, as you said. Good luck, and thanks for resurrecting this project! Michael -- To unsubscribe, send mail to [email protected].
