README.gpm2

I am thinking about restructing gpm, for the following reasons:

- the code is old
- the code is huge
- the code is next to unmaintainable
- the code is linux specific

What I think one could reach:

- create gpm, that runs on any Unix?
- create gpm that is easy to extend
- create gpm that is easy to maintain

What ways are possible?

- rewrite everything from scratch
   * takes a long time and much motivitation
- migrate old code to clean codebase
   * takes some time to analyse old code
   * seems to me some way one could go

How to do it?

- new functions / code references 'gpm2' instead of gpm
- perhaps some people want to sponsor me for creating a clean
  mouse driver for the console?
  => thus I got more time to focus on gpm2
- motivate other foss developers to take part into it

Let's see what happens!

      -- Nico Schottelius, 2007-05-11 2245 CEST in a train in Zurich