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