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Marco is based on which Metacity version? #696

Closed chdslv closed 3 years ago

chdslv commented 3 years ago

Marco is based on which Metacity version?

lukefromdc commented 3 years ago

Nobody seems to know for sure exactly what version of GNOME 2 (though presumably somewhere after the LAST release GNOME 2.32) was forked to initially create MATE

chdslv commented 3 years ago

So, Marco is the window manager that was forked from the Metacity version at that time? Like Metacity version 2.32?

mbkma commented 3 years ago

Initial commit for Marco was 02.12.2011. Just look at the git history at both projects (run gitk in the cloned repos) and you can figure it out yourself.

chdslv commented 3 years ago

Its been a long time, pretty hard to figure that out by myself. If you know, could you enlighten me? Thanks!

mbkma commented 3 years ago

Comparing the git histories of both projects it seems like Marco was forked from version 2.34.1 of Metacity (assuming that the first commit to Marco was based upon the most recent version of Metacity at that time, which does not have to be true necessarily).

chdslv commented 3 years ago

Thanks. Is today's Marco, of Mate 1.26 re-forked from the today's Metacity 3.40? Or, is it still the former fork?

raveit65 commented 3 years ago

No, why we should re-forking our applications? We have a own development.

lukefromdc commented 3 years ago

To my knowledge there has never been a refork of any MATE component, though a lot of useful commits from GNOME components have been backported.

On 8/29/2021 at 5:05 AM, "chdslv" @.***> wrote:

Thanks. Is today's Marco, of Mate 1.26 re-forked from the today's Metacity 3.40? Or, is it still the former fork?

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