On Wed, Jul 23, 2008 at 05:34:39PM -0500, Neil Gunton wrote: > 1. What is up with Embperl? I have written to Gerald Richter both via > this list and directly to his email address, and had no answer. I also > wrote to Angus Lees about the Debian Lenny Embperl package being broken > but got no reply. The email archives here are full of spam. It really > gives an "abandoned house" impression which is sure to turn off any > prospective new users. If I was a potential user, and I came onto the > Embperl site to check out the community, I would assume that this is a > dying or dead project. Is Embperl still being actively developed, or has > Gerald effectively put this to sleep? Has the likes of Ruby on Rails and > PHP put Embperl firmly into the history books, or is this actually still > an active project?
I have certainly gotten the impression that Gerald Richter is not as interested/involved in Embperl as he used to be. There was a flutter of discussion when someone proposed integrating Embperl with Catalyst, but nothing seems to have come of that. > If Gerald isn't all that "into" developing it any > more, is there any potential for someone else to take it on in a more > active way? The potential is there, with FOSS the potential is always there (even if someone is forced to do a fork) but what is lacking is the will. In other words, nothing will happen unless somebody steps forward and *does* something. But alas, we all wish that someone *else* would do something, and thus nothing happens. And, yes, I am guilty of not doing anything, myself, but I'm finding it hard enough to keep up with my existing FOSS projects, let alone taking another one on. Kathryn Andersen -- _--_|\ | Kathryn Andersen <http://www.katspace.com> / \ | \_.--.*/ | GenFicCrit mailing list <http://www.katspace.com/gen_fic_crit/> v | ------------| Melbourne -> Victoria -> Australia -> Southern Hemisphere Maranatha! | -> Earth -> Sol -> Milky Way Galaxy -> Universe --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
