Re: [STUMP] StumpWM 1.0.0 Released!

[David Bjergaard]

Jean Louis <address@hidden> writes:

> On Thu, Jan 12, 2017 at 01:14:25PM -0500, David Bjergaard wrote:
>> Hi,
>> 
>> I just released StumpWM 1.0.0.  Its not the final version of StumpWM I 
>> intended,
>> but I think its the right way to go in terms of modernizing the codebase and
>> making the project more future proof.
>
> That is very unfortunate, as I used CLISP. I guess I will continue
> using the latest supported version.
StumpWM is quickly approaching its 10th birthday.  I would really like to see it
make its 20th as well.  In order to do that I've had to make difficult decisions
about how we support and maintain the project.
>
>> That being said, 1.0.0 will be the last release that explicitly supports many
>> lisp distributions. From now on we will only support sbcl.  It also 
>> represents
>> the last release that only depends on clx and cl-ppcre.  From now on we will 
>> be
>> introducing dependencies when it makes sense and when they decrease our
>> maintenance overhead.
>
> Too bad for me.
>
>> You can find the code in the usual places:
>> https://github.com/stumpwm/stumpwm/releases/tag/v1.0.0
>> https://stumpwm.github.io/
>
> It would be nice that I don't need any Github account and that
> development is on some non-proprietary software.
You're welcome to fork the 1.0 release and continue developing it using whatever
VCS you prefer. You're also welcome to send critical patches to the 1.0 release
to this mailing list for the benefit of others. You may even leverage git for
some of these features:
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/9630774/how-to-make-pull-requests-without-a-github-account

I don't know what you mean by "proprietary software" stuwmpwm itself is GPL2,
github supports free software even if its a SaaS, as mentioned above you can
contribute without supporting or buying into github. CLISP and SBCL have
different licenses, but the benefits of SBCL outweigh the benefits of CLISP on
every other count. Further, neither CLISP or SBCL are proprietary software.
>
> Jean Louis