Re: fork()

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On Tuesday 31 January 2006 20:50, Eric Sandall wrote:
> <snip>
> Instead of forking, why not just pick up the y-windows project as it
> is and continue it with the community? This way you get to keep the
> name, website, etc. Of course you'll want to contact Mark (and
> possibly Andrew) about this and try to get their permission, but I see
> you've already done that and gotten no response. In that case, I'd try
> to keep this community going with this name instead of forking. If
> Mark (the legal owner of y-windows, AFAIK) comes by and says, "Hey, I
> own this name and I don't want you using it." then we can just grab
> our code we've done and rename the project.
>
> -sandalle

I agree.

Also, a common vision is needed. There's still a few big decisions to be ma=
de.=20
Innovation is important. Serverside widgets are good but it's not enough to=
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motivate all the work needed to make Y usable. Building the whole thing on=
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opengl using cairo/glitz would be a good thing imho. But that brings in a=20
whole bunch of new decisions to be made: allowing for resolution=20
independence, 3d desktop, egl vs. miniglx and such things.

I feel I don't have enough experience to make such big decisions and I won'=
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start writing code until there's a clear plan for the project.

//Simon

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