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by droidmonkey 3275 days ago
KeePass is the original, and also not very cross-platform. KeePassX has gone through several iterations and now represents a fairly stable and low-feature release of KeePass with cross-platform support. KeePassXC is where all the new and exciting features are being integrated into KeePassX while fixing latent bugs and cross-platform issues. Hope that makes sense.
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YaraGreyjoy 3274 days ago
Is there any thought to merging efforts with the original KeePass project? I know it's C# based but with .NET Core being an option now, maybe it doesn't require Mono and could be made cross-platform. Or maybe keep the C++ code and fold it back into the original project?

I just hate to have multiple projects spend resources on what is essentially the same thing. I think there are gains to be had by combining resources together.

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justryry 3274 days ago
The larger problem on cross-platform KeePass was never Mono directly (aside from the FUD), but rather the WinForms UI. One could blame Mono for not having a visually pleasing implementation of WinForms, although .NET core has nothing at all.

Refactoring out a core and building multiple UIs would be an interesting and large project.

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YaraGreyjoy 3273 days ago
It doesn't necessarily have to be multiple UIs (although that's probably better in the long term) but there are x-platform options like:

1) Eto.Forms (https://github.com/picoe/Eto) 2) Avalonia (https://github.com/AvaloniaUI/Avalonia)

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