From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Mime-Version: 1.0 (Mac OS X Mail 8.2 \(2098\)) From: Jeff Sickel In-Reply-To: Date: Thu, 18 Jun 2015 08:16:01 -0500 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Message-Id: <46B9E4BB-F0D9-4837-8D78-427A8A4A2213@corpus-callosum.com> References: To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@9fans.net> Subject: Re: [9fans] drawterm source? Topicbox-Message-UUID: 59cf0afe-ead9-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 > On Jun 18, 2015, at 7:47 AM, David du Colombier <0intro@gmail.com> = wrote: >=20 >> so why do we have so many un-coordinated versions of drawterm? >=20 > 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=E2=80=99t 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=E2=80=99t = 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=E2=80=99t, nor the = differing versions of X11 on my various FreeBSD releases I can test. And don=E2=80=99= t even get me started on the differing distros for Linux or testing for = CDE/GNOME/ KDE/Unity/Xfce=E2=80=A6 I=E2=80=99ve never pushed the X11 changes to support rio resizing as I = just don=E2=80=99t 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