Where is tc going?

[jur]

Please excuse this question - it is asked by a newbie in complete ignorance of what happens in the linux world.

I have noticed that several of the choice tc packages are apparently dormant. Such as flwm (according to the sourceforge page, the last activity was almost 2 years ago with the last version 1.0.2 posted 2006) or jwm (2007). Xvesa is another example.

This makes me wonder about the medium to long term direction of tc... I am committing a lot of my time on tc (my absolute favourite OS by a big margin) but if tc is using a lot of dormant stuff, is it inadvertently heading for the scrap heap?

[curaga]

Quoting lucky13, packages don't expire. We use what we use because they are the best choice, in terms of size and functionality.

The Vesa standard isn't likely to change; so Xvesa should continue to function a long time. And if bugs arise in dormant core packages like flwm, we can and do fix them. Just ask Mike about what he did with flwm

Of course there is choice as well - one can choose to use a WM released recently (xfce4 for example), the full Xorg stack, and so on.

[Iguleder]

Take Puppy Linux as an example, 2 guys from the forums took the latest SVN of JWM and added rounded window corners and top-corners resize, plus bug fixes for gxine or whatever it was. Later, Joe added their fixes to JWM (457, I think).

We're in the open source world, the TC community can change FLWM and even fork it.