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Originally Posted by javispedro View Post
A more appropriate question would be: what went wrong in FOSS that everyone starts with forking, renaming the project, wrapping behind their doors, refactoring, rewriting, and only then offering to maybe, you know, actually share code and avoid a fork?

Specially when upstream is still quite alive with plenty of contributors, if only slow?

The sad part is that we had the same discussion like, less than a few months ago..

But oh well, that opportunity is lost already, so let's center on the future. I personally agree on the store UI changes and dropping pre3.0 support. Slots are too annoying either way.
I really wanted to reuse pebbled as it was, I think I even still have a directory on my disk where all the SFOS stuff is #ifdef'ed out and replaced with ubuntu specific things. It just wasn't feasible any more at some point. Reusing software is a hard thing if it hasn't been created with platform abstraction in mind. I really hope I did a decent job with that in RockWork (as I've only ran it on Ubuntu so far, this part yet has to be proven).
 

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