[gpm]Re: report

[Alessandro Rubini]

> However, I am still willing to maintain gpm. Don't know if Alessandro took
> again his old job while I've been unreachable.

No, I only replied to a few messages on the list (the ones I had a
reply to).

> The Linux Kernel Team seems to make great progress in their Input
> Devi= ces section, perhaps they'll develop a much smaller gpm
> replacement as soon as = all mice protocols are supported in the
> kernel.

Mice protocols should _not_ be supported in the kernel. I don't expect
gpm to be implemented by the kernel people at all. They ought to
_remove_ selection stuff from TIOCLINUX instead, and gpm should become
a user-space tool with no kernel support at all (in addition to
/dev/vcs stuff, obviously).

I don't think we must do that now, but _if_ something is going to
change in the kernel, it will be _less_ gpm support, not more.

That's my opinion, but I know I'm not alone.  Also, the work by Ian
Zimmermann is worth looking at, I think. I hadn't time to,
unfortunately (and I haven't looked at a huge lot of other interesting
stuff as well).

/alessandro
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