-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Wed, 31 Jul 2002 02:29, you wrote:
> Pth is both part of the GNU and the OSSP project (where it is physically > located and developed). Unfortunately it seems that I've written too > much software over the last years ;), because there are lots of packages > which I no longer seem to be able to update as fast as people expect it. > Sorry, but I can do only as much as my time permits. !! You dont need to apologise. I use a lot of your software and think it is of the very highest quality . I try to do some O/S develoment myself and find it almost impossible to make a living and contribute any significant amount of code to OS projects. It constantly amazes me how prolific some people are. Thank you very much for what you contributed already and you'll find only gratitude from me for whatever future contributions you can make. If people need more than what Ralf has to provide, I guess they need to step up and start providing some resources themselves, and help fill in the gaps . Isnt that the key tenant of O/S philosophy ... ? > Pth is definetely maintained by me and the OSSP project team (especially > because it is an essential part of OSSP), but it is right that active > development slowed down in the Pth area and that official releases > occur less frequently. That is mostly because we are focusing > currently on other parts of OSSP (see http://cvs.ossp.org/timeline) > and Pth already works fine for us so far. But if you look at > http://cvs.ossp.org/pkg/lib/pth/ChangeLog and the CVS files at > http://cvs.ossp.org/pkg/lib/pth/ you will see that we're working on Pth > and updating it, too. > ahh thats very helpful - I wasnt aware of the CVS repository (though thats probably my own fault for not doing enough searching/reading). The lack of an list archive left me wondering about accumulating patches. Or is there a list archive that I've just missed finding the links to ? > Additionally we have many prepared or contributed patches in the > development queue, but most of them cannot be directly applied because > they are either partly unfinished or not 100% correct. For instance > look at the thread "Bug in pth_connect_ev" and the attached patch > pth-1.4.1-nonblock.asp.patch: sure, one can say "hey, there are patches > posted, but not included into Pth". But if you look closer you will see > that it would be not reasonable to include them as is. Sure, this could > be communicated better by us. Sorry for this. > > So, sorry for not beeing able to communicating with you as expected. A very brief acknowledgement of a patch submission would satisfy most people I think. Perhaps an automated system that can accept patch submissions and show their status (I'm very happy with the way SourceForge does this) would make things easier for you. At least 3rd party patches would be automatically archived somewhere that people could access them till such times as they were subsumed by the CVS code base .... Raf, again I'd like to praise your wonderful O/S contributions. I think your doing us all a magnificent service. Just when I needed a cross platform O/S posix threads package, there was pth. I dont think people like you get shown anywhere near enough appreciation. I hope one day to make some contributions in kind , but that may be a pipe dream. Perhaps if my company ever makes a real profit we can make some sort of financial contribution instead. In appreciation, - From a RSE wanne-be 8-) , - -- Peter Farmer | Custom XML software | Internet Engineering Zveno Pty Ltd | Website XML Solutions | Training & Seminars http://www.zveno.com/ | Open Source Tools | - XML XSL Tcl [EMAIL PROTECTED] +------------------------+--------------------- Ph. +61 8 92036380 | Mobile +61 417 906 851 | Fax +61 8 92036380 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org iD8DBQE9R08BeObpX5DbU14RAptiAJ4vafZ37yI58k2dgeQuhn4kPUFbyACg4eUj 9O1jeESwF/jrrMm067Hm3pU= =TLSE -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- ______________________________________________________________________ GNU Portable Threads (Pth) http://www.gnu.org/software/pth/ User Support Mailing List [EMAIL PROTECTED] Automated List Manager (Majordomo) [EMAIL PROTECTED]
