On Thu, Sep 13, 2012 at 3:38 AM, Andrei POPESCU <andreimpope...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Mi, 12 sep 12, 19:20:20, Alex Robbins wrote: >> >> I think development has stopped -- upstream. Some people (presumably >> the Debian people) have been developing patches. I imagine that some of >> these patches are for security fixes; I know that some are added features. >> Either way, I think screen is still considered "deprecated" in favor >> of tmux. > > By whom? References please :)
I don't know about "deprecated" but development seems to be stalled: "screen-4.0.3.tar.gz 821 kB 8/7/08 12:00:00 AM" is the last release hosted on ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/screen/. From http://savannah.gnu.org/people/viewjob.php?group_id=4235&job_id=512 you have: Screen needs development help for GNU Screen <snip> Submitted By: micahcowan Date: Fri 03 Oct 2008 05:19:48 PM UTC Status: Open <snip> After a hiatus of a few years, GNU Screen is preparing to make a major new release, with fun new features like vertical splits, and layout save/restore. There are just a handful of important bugs left to work out before 4.1.0 may be released, but we are extremely short on developers to get the work done. <snip> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/CAOdo=SzfJkU9wdwcDpu=yfChe5Xm5J7fVn1zN4r87gK0Hu=q...@mail.gmail.com
