> At first, I'm sorry that I was short-tempered. But, any comment like > your reply is very useful and encourages me. I want a quick reply, > even if it is "I don't know", or something.
Please understand that we are all volunteers and often cannot spare the time even to read your message at all and send any reply whatsoever. Give us a chance and don't get discouraged. (Myself I often don't have time to read a word of hurd mail during the week, and only get to it on free weekends.) > I have a question: I can't find where the code that you mean exists. > Please tell me which file includes that. I assume you are referring to grub? There is a copy of the latest grub dist available at ftp://alpha.gnu.org/gnu/grub-0.5.tar.gz. (The the other things mentioned are all in the hurd source.) > I've already implemented bunzip2 engines for exec, serverboot and > libstore, and I have checked that serverboot can bunzip2 successfully, That's great news! Thanks a lot for this work! I wish you had mentioned earlier what you were working on. Are you using libbz2? Note that the gzip support in exec was a quick hack for making boot floppies, and I did it before zlib was available to provide a clean way to reuse the gunzip code. > but exec cannot. So, I don't want to open this code yet. Please wait > until exec can do it. Please stop thinking this way! That is, please share your code (and ideas) early and often! We will all understand that the code is a work in progress and not judge you or the contribution based on the state of the code on any given day. But working in secret does no good to anyone. We are making our own development code available as openly and frequently as time and resources permit, and being open and public with our plans. The reason there have not been new snapshots in a while is not that we are carrying on development and not telling anyone about it, it's just that our time has been very constrained lately and we have not in fact had the opportunity to do much in the last several weeks. (The statement earlier that the main discussion takes places on other, private, mailing lists is not really accurate; we do have private mailing lists, but they too have been very quiet lately.) Please, I encourage everyone who is doing or considers doing some hacking on the Hurd, don't be silent! If you start hacking on something, tell us about it! The more we know about what you are doing, the more help we can be, and the more your enthusiasm can inspire others to hack too.
