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I am thinking about restructing gpm, for the following reasons:
- the code is old
- the code is huge
- the code is next to unmaintainable
- the code is linux specific
What I think one could reach:
- create gpm, that runs on any Unix?
- create gpm that is easy to extend
- create gpm that is easy to maintain
What ways are possible?
- rewrite everything from scratch
* takes a long time and much motivitation
- migrate old code to clean codebase
* takes some time to analyse old code
* seems to me some way one could go
How to do it?
- new functions / code references 'gpm2' instead of gpm
- perhaps some people want to sponsor me for creating a clean
mouse driver for the console?
=> thus I got more time to focus on gpm2
- motivate other foss developers to take part into it
Let's see what happens!
-- Nico Schottelius, 2007-05-11 2245 CEST in a train in Zurich