On Fri, Jan 22, 2010 at 08:08:03PM +0100, Ralf S. Engelschall wrote: > This seems like a Debian related discussion. But as the author of > GNU Pth I can at least say that I've never heard of "pthsem" > myself (if I received any email, then, sorry, it seems it was > filtered by the anti-spam stuff) and also don't know why GNU Pth is > considered unmaintained.
First, I happy, that contacting you has (finally) succeed and one of mails reached you. > Sure, I've not released any newer versions since 2006, but as long > as nobody drops me a note that something is broken there is no > requirement for any new releases. I'm using it at least under > the latest versions of FreeBSD, Linux and Solaris since years. > The functionality of GNU Pth is fully complete (at least to the > extend I originally planned at about 2004) since 2006 and > version 2.0.x. Yes, pth is stable and working, but probably not feature complete for some people (otherwise there would be no need for forks). > Over the last 10 years we have seen half a dozen forks of > GNU Pth (for various addon functionalities or whatever), but they > were at least never named "GNU Pth" or just "Pth". If the current > name of this fork is "pthsem", please keep it this way. But please avoid > naming it (or its Debian package) just "pth". Thanks. Calling it pth was the idea of some people on the debian mailing list to avoid having GNU pth and a "extended" pth package in the distribution. > If "pthsem" is really fully backward compatible to GNU Pth, > then we can even check whether we can include its functionality into > GNU Pth, too. Where do I find its latest sources? Is is the one > under http://www.auto.tuwien.ac.at/~mkoegler/index.php/pth? The latest sources can be found at: http://bcusdk.git.sourceforge.net/git/gitweb.cgi?p=bcusdk/bcusdk;a=shortlog;h=refs/heads/pthsem/master I'll send you in a private mail more details and hits to the relevant changes. Regards, Martin Kögler -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org