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Re: Whither FreePM?

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> At least it would be easier now than in the old days, since the 
> hardware has improved, and there is also a lot of open-source code 
> that could at least help get started.
>

Starting from FreePM, which made the design choices that I'm interested 
in, was the idea.

> Unfortunately a lot of PM is poorly documented, so you'd first have to 
> determine what has to be implemented.
>

As someone who has written a few PM programs, I disagree again.  (-:  I 
found a couple of things over the years that were not apparent from the 
documentation.  One was a quirk of the fact that in OS/2 version 2 the 
32-bit PM was actually thunked to 16-bit PM under the covers.  But 
otherwise I've found PM to be well documented.

> It might be a bit much for one person, but maybe it could be broken up 
> into manageable chunks and done piecemeal by a small team rather than 
> trying to do everything at once.
>

Ironically, someone on one of these let's-write-our-own projects (I 
forget which.  It was a wiki somewhere.) once put forward that very 
idea, simply with a larger granularity and a wider overall scope.  One 
person/group develops Presentation Manager.  One provides a command-line 
interpreter and ancillary command line utilities.  One provides a 
Workplace Shell.  One provides an installer.  One provides a kernel. ...

That person pointed out that I'd done the second task, and had even made 
the kernel implementor's task easier by making my programs purely 
32-bit.  (-:

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Re: Whither FreePM? Jonathan de Boyne Pollard <J.deBoynePollard-newsgroups@NTLWorld.COM> - 2011-01-28 14:26 +0000

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