Rebasing x11/motif on actively maintained fork
Paolo Vincenzo Olivo <[email protected]>
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| Organization | SDF Public Access UNIX System |
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Upstream Motif hasn't seen activity in nearly 3 years. https://sourceforge.net/p/motif/code/ci/master/tree/ On one hand, I favor slow-paced development and I'm ok with periods of inactivity. In addition, the niche of Motif applications doesn't exactly overlap with that of cutting edge software. On the other hand, I bumped across this actively maintained fork, which published a major release just a month ago: https://github.com/thentenaar/motif/releases The rationale behind this fork is explained in the project's homepage: > This fork of Motif was born of a desire to keep Motif (and other X11 > technologies) alive and well. The original upstream Sourceforge project > hasn't had any activity in over two years, none of the project admins > have been active for at least that amount of time, the official bug > tracker has disappeared into the void; and the user forum was closed way > back in 2017. Sadly, it appears that the original upstream has abandoned > the project. > I've incorporated some fixes from upstream that have laid dormant for > years, a few others from Gentoo, and made a few improvements of my own. > I intend to maintain this fork, and in doing so advocate for the > continued use of the user interface toolkit that defined an era, and > influenced many of the user interfaces that came after it v2.4.0 seems to bring many enhancements and bug fixes over 2.3.8 so it may be worth taking a look at it, testing it with some applications and evaluate the possibility of moving x11/motif to such fork. I haven't done this myself, and can't tell whether it would break any package depending on it, but I would give it a shot if there's any interest in it. -- PVO