Am 21.06.2011 um 20:46 schrieb Joe Auty: >> Benjamin Fleischer >> June 21, 2011 2:41 PM >> >> Hi, >> >> "officially" MacFUSE is dead (as in the google code project owner abandoned >> the project), but there is an unofficial build which should solve your >> problem. You can find it at >> http://www.tuxera.com/mac/macfuse-core-10.5-2.1.9.dmg >> >> There will be a MacFUSE successor project called FUSE for OS X (OSXFUSE) >> which will also support Lion. > > Two MacFUSE successors? OSXFUSE *and* fuse4x.org?
Fuse4X is owned and maintained by Anatol. Like MacFUSE it has just a single owner. Though Anatol's project is based on MacFUSE he changed quite a lot. The result is a MacFUSE successor which is binary incompatible with most existing MacFUSE filesystems. The filesystems would need to be specifically recompiled against Fuse4X for things to work. How likely is that? Keep in mind that Fuse4X is only compatible with Mac OS X 10.6. For open source projects this would be an easy task but for commercial or in general closed source projects this won't be as easy. That's why there could not have been extensive testing regarding compatibility of his MacFUSE fork with existing filesystems. From a developer's point of view this and dropping support for 10.5 is bad. Don't get me wrong, Anatol has some great ideas and I agree with him that it is important to bring MacFUSE (or whatever it is called) up to speed and restore compatibility with its Linux origin. But we should not rush things. In my opinion it is important to first release a stable and well-tested version of MacFUSE/OSXFUSE that does not change too much code-wise, is binary compatible with MacFUSE and supports Snow Leopard's 64 bit kernel. This way there is no need to recompile existing filesystems. The transition from MacFUSE to its successor will be a lot smoother this way. The second release should fully support Lion. This would be a basis we could build on and adopt some more extensive code changes. Code-wise Anatol's fork is based on Erik's kernel code to support 64 bit kernels and my port of Linux FUSE 2.8.5 to Mac OS X. On top of that he applied his own patches. Erik and I are the "owners" of the OSXFUSE project. Once we get some things worked out I'm all for adding contributors. I would like OSXFUSE to be community based to prevent the situation we now have with MacFUSE and Amit abandoning the project. -- 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.
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