Hi, Thanks for clarifying. Shame about the Google project. I like the idea of a new name:
'FUSE for Macintosh' ? 'FUSE/OSX' ? 'FUOSXE' ? ;) Rory On 1 Jun 2011, at 23:08, Benjamin Fleischer <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi Rory, > >> - Amit no longer has any interest / active involvement > > That seems to be the case. He has a new project. > >> - Some folks managed to get it compiling 64-bit, but without making it >> thread-safe, leading to broken versions which should be hunted down and >> killed > > Yes. > >> - Some other folks managed to put together patches, including the MacPorts >> guys, some commerical interests and some lone hackers, with varying degrees >> of success > > Credit for getting MacFUSE to run on 64 bit kernels belongs to Erik Larsson. > MacPorts had nothing to do with that. MacPorts has some "patches" but they > are basically renaming some folders, that's all. > >> - Someone managed to convince Google to hand over project ownership > > Correct, but Google transferred it back. We are where we started in the first > place, locked out. > >> - Work is now underway to consolidate the various 64-bit patches and create >> the One True Version of MacFUSE which will work in 64-bit for Snow Leopard >> and Lion. > > > There are still several "unofficial" projects at GitHub. There are some > concerns about continuing work under the name MacFUSE (since we don't have > access to the google project) or renaming the project to have a fresh and > clean start. The name MacFUSE is highly associated with Google. > > I'm confident there will be a new official version, just give it some more > time. > > Regards, > Benjamin > > -- > 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.
