Hello Andrew, hello all,
> > There's one thing that should be added here. Obviously, there has
> > been no further development on BPQ since version 4.08a, which is
> > available for quite a couple of years now.
> > That indicates for several people including me, that the author does
> > not work on the program any more.
>
> I believe a statement has been made to this effect by G8BPQ.
> Certainly G4IDE (the author of WinPack) has issued a patch to solve
> a problem, simply because the BPQ switch code won't be updated.
That sounds interesting. Do you have some more detailed
information about this?
[release BPQ sources to the public]
>
> I think I'd prefer if a "hard-core" group took over maintenance,
> rather than making the source generally available. From what I
> understand, there's some pretty freaky coding in it.
>
That's my opinion, too. But giving the maintenance over to some
group of experienced fellows does not necessarily that one should
not make the sources publicly available.
Think about Linux - it's a quite similar situation here. The kernel
sources are freely available _and_ a "hard core" group of
experienced programmers around Linus Thorvalds and Alan Cox
does maintain it.
As already mentioned before, there are only very few people
expected to be dealing with a thing like BPQ sources so their
feedback won't cause a terrible amount of work for the maintainers.
Cheers, 73
Gerd
