On 24 January 2014 19:15, Przemek Klosowski <przemek.klosowski(a)nist.gov> wrote:
The term 'hiding' conveys a wrong implication that
abandonware is
necessarily an embarrassment to be kept locked up in the attic.
I think that's the right implication.
I can think
of several programs that I use daily that are simple enough so that there's
not much development happening to them. For example, the 'units' program,
which I showed recently to some mechanical engineers who use Linux and they
went 'OMG this is so cool, how come we didn't know about it even though
we've been using Linux for ten years'.
Right. If it's a GUI application, and is indeed awesome, I'd hope that
the Fedora packager could write an AppData file, take some
screenshots, include it as a source in the RPM and build a new version
of the package. This way is a workaround for an abandoned-upstream but
awesome/complete package.
Richard.