[Q] Atom sunset

[UziTech]

It seems GitHub has finally pulled the plug and are sunsetting Atom.

I have been using a somewhat custom version of Atom for a while and plan on still using it for some development for a while.

Question is: Do people want x-terminal to continue to get updates? or should we archive it (and the rest of the terminals)?

[the-j0k3r]

security updates are always welcome.

Not surprised they did this to Atom, classic MS move, embrace Opensource and then smother it to death.

I dont plan on ever using their offering (if forced by total lack of Atom security patches I will goto VSCodium) and its sad to see that @aminya hard work on fork has also gone to waste, when rebranding would be the only way for MS to not kill legal opensource forks like the community one, which in all fairness cannot contain any Atom branding nor names or imagery since they are trademarks.

I hope that @aminya will reconsider and rebrand, but highly doubtful and in the end, welcome to MS the opensource killers.

[mjrodgers]

I'd like to see continued development, I have some hope that the Pulsar-edit fork of Atom will continue to show promise. As of right now, it can pull the x-terminal package that was archived from apm (v 13.1.0) but any updates since then need to be installed manually.

[UziTech]

I have been somewhat following the Pulsar-edit fork but not too closely. What would be needed to change this to be used in Pulsar-edit?

[wwWT000]

and , how to install it manually?

[mjrodgers]

Hmm, looking into this, they have a package manager that has all of the old Atom packages, but maybe they are still working on a way to update it... so maybe I jumped the gun on this suggestion.

I think to install manually you just download it from GitHub and put it in your packages folder.

[UziTech]

In atom you could install any package from GitHub using the cli apm install [repo URL]. I'm guessing you can still do something similar withppm

[UziTech]

Currently our GitHub actions scripts attempt to use apm to release new versions to the atom package manager (which is failing for obvious reasons). If you wanted to switch that to use ppm to release to the pulsar package manager that would be helpful. 😁👍

[liquidmetalrob]

I totally agree with keeping Atom and X-Terminal alive

[EchedelleLR]

I am unsure if after this you moved a bit, but I have received a very warm welcome with Pulsar and this package works there perfectly so far.