I wouldn't say we "abandoned" it. We published its source under a free/ flexible license, and encouraged people to do "whatever" with it. People *have* stepped up and created alternatives (MacFusion for instance).
Accepting "free" offers of help isn't really free in that resources are still needed to coordinate the help, make releases, deal with bug reports, and so on. No matter how nice and featureful you make the GUI, it'd be worthless if the underlying system (MacFUSE Core: the kernel extension, library, mount utility, etc.) is not good enough and hangs/crashes/doesn't work. MacFUSE Core is *1* person's part-time project. Given the constraints, the priority to focus on the core is driven by the *users'* interests. Assuming that supporting sshfs.app isn't in Google's interest, etc., is speculative. Besides, the GUI is something that many, many Mac developers out there can do a very good job of. Amit On Apr 27, 9:42 am, Casey Marshall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > In all fairness, you guys did publish a nice, simple, and extremely > useful app that uses MacFUSE, then abruptly abandoned it. You even > abandoned external offers to help improve it. > > And I understand that it isn't in Google's interest to support this > little utility, and that's fine -- your priorities are your own, and > I'm not going to try to dictate what you should be doing -- but this > app does seem like something people will clamor for support for. > > Thanks. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "macfuse-devel" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macfuse-devel?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
