On 31.07.12,16:56, Carsten Mattner wrote: > On Tue, Jul 31, 2012 at 3:43 PM, Brian Kroth <bpkr...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Carsten Mattner <carstenmatt...@gmail.com> 2012-07-21 14:52: > > > >> I've been using screen for many years and it has been almost > >> 4 years since the last official release. > >> > >> Are there any plans for a new release? > >> Or should I just use screen from the master branch to get > >> a recent version? > > > > > > I completely agree with the sentiment. I think it's (perhaps artificially) > > holding up inclusion in the major linux distros of a modern screen, which > > really has some nice new features to offer. > > This sounds kind of similar to users preferring zsh over bash just > because Apple bundles an ancient (differently licensed?) bash with OSX. > > I did try tmux but it just doesn't work as well as screen for me. It > seems slower when listing many many lines of text and I also miss the > key chaining behavior of screen. The difference in key chaining is a > design choice as far as I was told and you have to redefine all the > quick key chains you use explicitly. > > > Debian's experimental branch at least has a git based package now, adapted > > from a recent fedora package, which, from a quick glance, is the only major > > distro out there to have one. > > Seen that, but don't use Debian. What's holding up a release? > > FWIW I haven't reported this to Fedora's bug tracker but their copy of > screen has a bug somewhere which segfaults if you have "maxwin 9" or > "maxwin 4" in .screenrc. That doesn't happen on any other distro. > > What can we do to get a stable release out there? >
Any news on this one? :) Jostein _______________________________________________ screen-users mailing list screen-users@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/screen-users
