Re: Dia Discontinued





On Tue, Sep 13, 2016 at 5:00 PM, Chris Daley <chebizarro gmail com> wrote:

No, you'd have to really be stretching it to come to that conclusion. The questions were fair and reasonable given that the application does indeed appear to no longer be maintained and the maintainer(s) no longer appear to even be subscribed to or monitoring this mailing list.


Actually not. The OP seemed assuming, starting with the subject of the email.
If you want to work with Open Source then ask questions correctly: http://catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html
 

Dia is quite obviously abandoned, the engineering effort required to modernize it to GTK and Python 3 being either beyond the interest or abilities of its maintainers.

DIA is stable and doesn't need any active development, I use it every day in OS X for real-world work and it's used worldwide in several platforms. 

In all fairness there should be a disclaimer on the website saying that it is no longer being actively developed and will probably stop working altogether in a few years. That way unsuspecting users won't invest any more of their time in learning a program that has no future.


Please stop the FUD. If you think like this what are you doing in this list? Put your money where your mouth is and fork it to GTK and Python 3 if you think your abilities are better. There is nothing stopping you.

Best,
Alejandro Imass
 


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