I have no intention of giving void's xbps away. But until they sort themselves out I cannot justify the time to continue to work on ?puppyfying an interface. There is always the option of their top level guru (currently missing but legally still in control) saying no you can't use it because...., as Sourcerer's did to his group when he went commercial with it and that cost many thousands of hours free work by many people having to be scrapped before they started again at the last fully free version and built their clone from there.nosystemdthanks wrote:please dont give up on void.
its one of the best things out there right now, they will be alright if enough people care about whats going on over there.
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keep it alive-- if void has a good tool, use it! for you and for void itself-- do both of you a favour.
However, I need to do something while time is available, as from the middle of July until some time in late October I am needed elsewhere most of the time again and won't have the free time needed to move this project on. I wan't the matrix of it sorted out from my mind and onto paper, otherwise it could just turn stagnent, die due to matrix complication levels, or just become useless for it's proposed purpose.
Oh, and i'm still (just) within the timeline I origonally wrote up back in January, although a little slippage will occur . I can and will give Void until I return in October to sort themselves out, as most of the pre-work for that has already been scoped out, just needing to be matrixed neatly on paper. Then I must make a decision to keep going or put it in mothballs until next year if Void looks like it will need just that amount of extra time. I can in the meantime play with the only alternative i've found with that's easy to convert, the old gpl version from Sourcerer, but that's going to take a lot of work to update to become usefull and I really don't want to go that path.
As you can guess from the above, for my sanity, I still need to do it all by myself at this point as it's mostly in my head (and a few hundreds of scraps of paper).
The following stage in either case, will be when I call for a few volunteers (scriptors and bacon-coders first please) to work with me to create a testable and somewhat functionable alpha. If you want to be involved from that point I can only request / suggest you go and learn / practice how to work with one of them.
EDIT1: 4 june 2018. It seems that the new void linux group are sorting things out and will have from approx 15 june2018 (or as soon as possible after that) a new website at voidlinux.org and the files at github.com/void-linux/. The old ones will work for now although they will not be updated. I consider therefore I will await until after then before looking and if possible progressing again using void's xbps and xbps-packages. It basically means I only have to work out if I use a musl base or not and i'm tempted 'not', at least for the test build as I'm considering using BarryK's Easy Pyro x86-64 for that.