Aengus wrote: >> (personally I also think the config syntax and semantics could do >> with an "upgrade"). > > There are a couple of syntactic quirks that, with hindsight, might be > usefully reworked, but I'm not sure that the benefits of making > "FILEINCLUDE robots" work the same way as "FILEINCLUDE pages" is > enough to provide the momentum for a fork.
I think the entire runtime config is quirky to say the least. Certainly when compared to the tools we otherwise work with - apache, mysql, syslog-ng, logrotate, rsync etc. Just fixing a couple of minor oddities isn't really worth looking at, I agree. >> A fork is not necessary, but as Stephen never did invite other >> maintainers/developers, it seems to be only way forward. > > I don't think Stephen was exactly beating down requests to join the > development team! He wasn't inviting any either. An obvious first step would have been to use the sourceforge project that was set up, but I don't think he ever did. (apart from the front page). > The very structure of Analog makes helper apps a good > method to add functionality, without modifying Analog. It's a slightly different discussion, but sometimes it's nicer to have just one tool instead five or six that you need to cobble together with a bit of scripting etc. > This was Stephens response to why he didn't release an "official" > patch to include Vista: > http://lists.meer.net/pipermail/analog-help/2006-November/020028.html Perfectly reasonable, but had he for instance already had others on the project to help support some of these platforms, it would have been much easier to do a new release. > I certainly have no objection to a fork - I doubt that Stephen has. > I'm just not sure that there's sufficient demand for a fork to > maintain the necessary momentum. I don't think Stephen has any issue with a fork either, I'm just surprised it hasn't happened yet. Maybe a fork will become more attractive in an other couple of user-mods and a bit of sticky tape here and some chewing gum there :-) /Per Jessen, Zürich +------------------------------------------------------------------------ | TO UNSUBSCRIBE from this list: | http://lists.meer.net/mailman/listinfo/analog-help | | Analog Documentation: http://analog.cx/docs/Readme.html | List archives: http://www.analog.cx/docs/mailing.html#listarchives | Usenet version: news://news.gmane.org/gmane.comp.web.analog.general +------------------------------------------------------------------------
