The project is not dead, folks. Quite simply, Alfredo Kojima and Dan Pascu, the two primary programmers, have been extremely busy with real life. Despite this fact, there has been and continues to be a lot of activity (cvs commits, wm-dev list discussion, etc.). The biggest hold up at the moment is updating all parts of Window Maker to support Freetype2. This has been a huge undertaking on Alfredo and Dan's part, and there is still a ways to go.
[^] # Re: Nouveau logiciel de dessin vectoriel : Cenon
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