On Thu, 2008-01-24 at 12:27 +0000, Jonny Lamb wrote: > 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.
Thanks, interesting... > > 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/ aha, this might be a temporary solution then... > > 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. That's fine - don't want to create more work. If the plan is to drop it eventually, then an intermediate patched version will be fine. > > 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.. yeah, I realise I shouldn't have used the word "pressure". I was hoping if we pinged him again and said there was growing interest, then he might get into it again. But I think that spending time on libwbxml isn't the way to go... > Thanks, thank you! -- Iain Buchanan <iaindb at netspace dot net dot au> Tele-Parabilizing: Morals used in everyday life that derive from TV sitcom plots: "That's just like the episode where Jan loses her glasses!" -- Douglas Coupland, "Generation X: Tales for an Accelerated Culture" ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Microsoft Defy all challenges. Microsoft(R) Visual Studio 2008. http://clk.atdmt.com/MRT/go/vse0120000070mrt/direct/01/ _______________________________________________ SynCE-Devel mailing list SynCE-Devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/synce-devel
