Re: [9fans] drawterm source?

[Jeff Sickel <jas@corpus-callosum.com>]

> On Jun 18, 2015, at 7:47 AM, David du Colombier <0intro@gmail.com> wrote:
> 
>> so why do we have so many un-coordinated versions of drawterm?
> 
> Because the original repository is hosted on Bitbucket (and Google Code),
> and Russ won't accept to review changes on Rietveld anymore.

For the same reason there are so many forks of everything else, everyone
is [wants to be] a diva.

But in reality, the multiple targets (X11 on various platforms/versions,
OSX pre- and post-Carbon, iOS, and Windows) all have differences that don’t
always integrate into the same build system.  I tried to keep the drawterm-
cocoa port viable across all targets, but after a migration of more current
libraries over from Plan 9 I never completed the X11 or Windows integration
to get those build.  Never completed for two reasons, I don’t have a Windows
environment to build/test, nor are any of my X11 targets consistent: one
build on an old Ubuntu works, a newer Ubuntu doesn’t, nor the differing
versions of X11 on my various FreeBSD releases I can test.  And don’t even
get me started on the differing distros for Linux or testing for CDE/GNOME/
KDE/Unity/Xfce…

I’ve never pushed the X11 changes to support rio resizing as I just don’t
have a host (or time) to test.

> So, I've simply moved it to GitHub.

Maybe it is nice that Git is winning the DVCS wars.  That said, there needs
to be an effort to port that beast to Plan 9 for those of us who still use
that platform for research and development.

-jas