[arch-dev-public] Bringing WindowMaker forward

[Ronald van Haren]

On Sun, Sep 13, 2009 at 7:03 PM, Daniel Isenmann <daniel.isenmann at gmx.de>wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I know that most of you doesn't really use WindowMaker or think it's
> obsolete. Nevertheless I use it daily at my main desktop and I'm very
> happy with it. Sadly there were no release since 4 years! :(
>
> At the moment there are some very active developers which forked the
> actual last CVS snapshot of WindowMaker and doing a lot of work with
> new features and bugfixes.
>
> The mailinglist of WindowMaker is very active with those developers and
> it looks promising. I have used there GIT snapshot since a few days and
> it looks very good.
>
> I would like to replace our official package with a regular updated GIT
> snapshot package to give the new developers as much feedback as
> possible and to give our WindowMaker users a more fresh WindowMaker
> than the 4 years old one.
>
> Any objections in doing this?
>
> Cheers,
>  Daniel
>

as long as you test the git snapshots first in order to provide some kind of
stability check I see no problems with it. I may even give it a try just for
fun.

Ronald
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