Re: [rdesktop-devel] The FreeRDP fork

[Peter Å. <as...@ce...>]

On Mon, 14 Mar 2011, Gregory Smirnov wrote:

> freerdp project was actually announced in rdesktop-devel list:
> http://article.gmane.org/gmane.network.rdesktop.devel/3226
>
> and the reason cleanly states: "rdesktop not being fixed up quick enough"

As far as I understand, Michael Adams is not a FreeRDP developer, so I 
don't consider that email as any "official" announcement of the project.


> I saw patches laying in rdesktop bugzilla for a while and they were
> not integrated into rdesktop. On the other hand, if there is a new
> implementation of existing feature in rdesktop, how it might be tested
> and integrated into rdesktop by community? For example freerdp project
> provides new way of keyboard handling.
>
>> From observer point of view, I see that rdesktop features are being
> decided by only Cendio and not the community. Sorry, may be I am
> wrong, but that is an impression I've got and glad that freerdp
> project exists and is rapidly growing.

The main problem is that rdesktop lacks active developers. Cendio also 
contributes to many other projects, so we are not able to spend much time 
on rdesktop. This is a bad situation which is not at all wanted from our 
side. In other words, more developers are wanted. We do not want to block 
contribution.


Rgds, 
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