On 06/24/2012 10:57, Michael Corral wrote: > 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.
So use FreeBSD, where it works just fine. :) >> 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. Note, I'm not actually suggesting that anyone test on them all. What I'm suggesting is that working code not be ripped out. Also, are you stating that all of those platforms are currently supported? Because I'm pretty sure you're exaggerating a bit there ... > 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. Certainly that's true. And if Alexey wants to make a linux-only-wdm fork, no problem. But don't take a project that's cross-platform now and turn it into something that is linux-only, but purport to be the new version of the same project. > And it makes sense to focus on Linux, whose > user base dwarfs those of the smaller OSes. I think if you looked at the total population of "people who use, or would like to use wdm" the numbers might be quite a bit different than total userbase numbers. > 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. If the linux bits need to be fixed, fix them. But that should be done without ripping out code that works for other platforms. Doug -- This .signature sanitized for your protection -- To unsubscribe, send mail to [email protected].
