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From:
Pascal Stumpf <pascal@stumpf.co>
Subject:
Re: [new] CDE
To:
Antoine Jacoutot <ajacoutot@bsdfrog.org>
Cc:
ports@openbsd.org
Date:
Sun, 27 Jul 2025 22:20:53 +0200

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  • Antoine Jacoutot:

    [new] CDE

    • Manuel Giraud:

      [new] CDE

    • Pascal Stumpf:

      [new] CDE

Hi Antoine,

I had a port for this a few years back, but never got around to finish
it.  Thanks!

On Sun, 27 Jul 2025 13:06:38 +0200, Antoine Jacoutot wrote:
> Hi.
> 
> First draft at porting CDE.
> It's still rough around the edges and very slightly tested.
> I wouldn't use is as a daily driver, it's old unsecure code but it's fun if you
> want to bring back memories.
> 
> Comment:
> Common Desktop Environment
> 
> Description:
> CDE - The Common Desktop Environment is X Windows desktop environment that was
> commonly used on commercial UNIX variants such as Sun Solaris, HP-UX and IBM
> AIX. Developed between 1993 and 1999, it has now been released under an Open
> Source licence by The Open Group.
> 
> Maintainer: Antoine Jacoutot <ajacoutot@openbsd.org>
> 
> WWW: https://sourceforge.net/p/cdesktopenv/wiki/Home/
> 
> It supposedly requires ksh93 but so far our own ksh seems sufficient (maybe I am
> missing sth).

The KSH found at configure time is propagated to most scripts that are
installed.  It's quite possible that all of these work as intended with
/bin/ksh, but maybe it's best to not take any chances.

> Don't hesitate to play with it and propose fixes and improvements.
> 
> -- 
> Antoine
> 
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