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Alternative backends are old thing, Daniel mainly documented how to make them (other than various cleanups underneath). The reality is that nobody cared enough
by p_l 5y ago
Alternative backends are old thing, Daniel mainly documented how to make them (other than various cleanups underneath).
The reality is that nobody cared enough about those alternative backends to keep them alive (other than CLX, for a time beagle was usable - but only on OSX, unless someone did a lot of work to compile it for other unices using GNUstep/OPENSTEP)
- metroholografix 5y agoWell yeah, if there's no documentation on how to create a backend, the barrier to entry is that much higher. It is great that this is now getting addressed. And none of the old alternative backends, including Beagle, ever worked for me. I certainly tried. I think it's fair to say that all of them were in various states of disrepair and none ever reached the point of "fully working".
- p_l 5y agoI'm pretty sure beagle worked for a time, but that time was probably "CCL/RMCL on PPC mac with OSX" and I don't think it would cover all versions of that.