Frank Che wrote: > Nicolas Williams wrote: [snip] > >>I probably shouldn't repeat this, but I am again concerned about > >>Committed for an application that seems to have a somewhat limited > >>audience and may itself no longer be actively developed or maintained. > >>(See http://www.cis.upenn.edu/~bcpierce/unison/status.html for that > >>status information.) This is all the more so given the above > >>limitations, which it now seems are unlikely to be resolved given the > >>development status. > > > >I agree. Make it Obsolete, make it Uncommitted or Volatile and add a > >note explaining what changes might be coming, if any. > > According to the message from the community web site, there is no active > development on this product any more. While bug fixes, small > improvements and contributed patches may come. So I suggested to use > Committed level. If members think this is not proper, please let me know > and it will be fixed.
Erm..."devils advocate" question: If Unison is no longer maintained... why should it be integrated into (Open)Solaris ? And how do other OSes (like Linux) handle the support issue (e.g. no upstream where they can send the bug reports to) ? ---- Bye, Roland -- __ . . __ (o.\ \/ /.o) roland.mainz at nrubsig.org \__\/\/__/ MPEG specialist, C&&JAVA&&Sun&&Unix programmer /O /==\ O\ TEL +49 641 7950090 (;O/ \/ \O;)
