Hi Iain,

Am Freitag, 9. März 2012, 20:57:48 schrieb Iain Hibbert:
> I wonder, what is the status of openobex now?
> 
> I see that the code repository at git.kernel.org was never reinstated,
> though the project is present and owned by Marcel Holtmann. Then, the
> distribution files are no longer available in the www.kernel.org
> directory. Neither have any recent releases made it to the sourceforge
> hosting site, and the source is no longer at sourceforge. The
> www.openobex.org pages are

...still there but will probably never be updated.
I could host that site on my server but Marcel is owner of this domain.


> If I recall, the BlueZ folks have essentially moved on and are focusing on
> obexd which handles this directly instead of using openobex, and patches
> posted here never seemed to make it into any repository except the
> unofficial http://gitorious.org/openobex maintained by Hendrik Sattler.
> 
> Is anybody still interested in openobex?  I recall rumours of a 2.0
> release..

I am. Obexd is a bluez plugin and bluetooth is its focus is (and the current 
main usage of the OBEX protocol).

However, it is also obvious that openobex has some problems. I will address 
those before releasing 2.0. This will include API changes. I don't know, yet, 
if compatibility with 1.5 will be kept.

Regards,

HS

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