Jeff, I agree, putting it up on GitHub would be a good idea. I am about ready to start my new project which involves MacFUSE and would like to see it there. You can count on extensive testing on my part once I get going. Used to run the Open Firmware department at Apple and know how to test and report :)
On Oct 18, 2010, at 07:12 , Jeff Mancuso wrote: > For what it's worth, I'd strongly recommend against hosting this build > anywhere public until it has gone through a bit more testing. Like > Erik mention, it's not designed to work well in a shared-driver > environment. This would be a pretty poor solution to integrate into > the public MacFUSE line. It's also very beta and has known bugs that > can lead to deadlock in somewhat rare situations. > > Drawing on experience here at ExpanDrive, we had many users install > the non-threadsafe "unofficial" 64 bit DMG, with all sorts of > problems. It was a decidedly "bad idea" - but nobody liked to hear > that what seemed to run well, was actually rather unsafe and would > eventually lead to problems. > > Until the developers [tuxera, mostly] get this a little farther along > and we can all agree on a solution to either namespace the driver to > individual projects [like tuxera] or to have a better locking > mechanism, hosting these files publicly for anybody to download > probably isn't prudent. Anyone who wants to run it to help develop/ > test will almost certainly have the dev chain installed, and it's easy > enough to build. > > That being said, I do think moving this project to Github is a pretty > good idea. I have the "macfuse" account on github and am happy to > bring the project there, or as a sub-project of ExpanDrive [since we > use it fairly extensively :)] > > > -Jeff > ExpanDrive, Inc. > > > > On Oct 18, 3:22 am, Graham Perrin <[email protected]> wrote: >> On Sep 30 2009, 2:51 am, Amit Singh <[email protected]> wrote: >> >>>> I've recompiled the preference pane to include a 64-bit version. >>>> download it from the "files" section of this group: >> >>>> http://groups.google.com/group/macfuse/files >> >> Currently at <http://groups.google.com/group/macfuse/files>: >> >>> you won't be able to upload new content >> >> So: where should we host new files? >> >> FWIW I have seen at least one other group shifting to GitHub. > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "MacFUSE" 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?hl=en. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacFUSE" 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?hl=en.
