On Thu, Jan 24, 2008 at 04:17:44PM +0930, Iain Buchanan wrote: > some questions about libwbxml: Is upstream dead? (0.10.0 is 1 year > late! http://libwbxml.aymerick.com/roadmap) It would make my life easier > if he produced a new release, but I understand he hasn't even got our > patches into his svn yet. I know someone sent him the patches (can't > remember who) but they don't seem to have gone anywhere. It's not even > listed in Trac (http://libwbxml.aymerick.com/report/1) afaict.
Upstream does indeed feel dead. Richard Alimi sent the patches a while ago with no response or acknowledgement, so Richard later sent them again. This was responded to by a "Thanks, I'll look at it soon" email. Nothing has happened after that. > For SynCE to ever be marked stable in Gentoo, it can't depend on an svn > snapshot of libwbxml. Marking it stable won't be an issue straight > away, but I'd like to see it done eventually. To be honest, I'm more bothered about SynCE itself depending on such a weird situation than any distribution having to deal it. After all, Gentoo is not the only one having problems -- I'm going through the same tiresome process with Debian. > So, can we either: > > 1. provide patches against latest libwbxml release (0.9.2) and not > svn version? I've already created this: http://compsoc.dur.ac.uk/~jdl/wbxml2-0.9.2-patches/ These are basically copied from the 0.9.2 patches which are in SynCE SVN: http://synce.svn.sourceforge.net/viewvc/synce/trunk/patches/ > 2. fork libwbxml and maintain it ourselves :) Go ahead, but not only do I plan to move away from libwbxml2[0] but I doubt there'd be any volunteers to do so. > 3. put the pressure on upstream again, to see if we can get a new > release (or any comment)? At the very least, a release of the > current svn snapshot would be fine, if option 1. isn't possible. If he's busy, then he's busy. It's annoying, but this is the world of free software. He's not obliged to release.. Thanks, [0] http://www.synce.org/moin/SynceRoadmap -- Jonny Lamb, UK [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://jonnylamb.com GPG: 0x2E039402
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