Sad news to hear companies that don't understand free software taking maintainership of good free software :(
Maybe the best would be to maintain a fork of it... cheers, bráulio On Fri, Jun 26, 2015 at 4:46 PM, Eric Wong <[email protected]> wrote: > As most of you know, unicorn has always used Ragel for HTTP > parsing (inherited from Mongrel). > > For the most part, Ragel works great and does not need much > maintenance. I made some changes to work with the Ragel 5-to-6 > transition for Mongrel (pre-unicorn) and that was it. > > Since I mainly use Ragel from the Debian package nowadays, > I missed this bit of news when it was posted 2014-10-24. > > http://www.colm.net/ragel-now-maintained-by-colm-networks/ > > | As of October 2014, Ragel will be maintained by Colm Networks. > | This is a new consulting company founded by Dr. Adrian D. > | Thurston. > > (ed: Adrian Thurston is the original author of Ragel) > > | Since we cannot operate in the open, the git repository for > | Ragel will no longer be available. The project will be > | published as release (and pre-release) tarballs only. On the > | upside, Ragel will get much more attention. > > *Sigh* I guess we'll need to diff release tarballs from now on... > > I'm not very knowledgeable in C++, so any extra help auditing Ragel > changes would be greatly appreciated. > > | The license will remain the same: GPLv2 with an exception for > | the generated code derived from Ragel source. > > OK, at least that is good to hear. > > Fwiw, the ragel-users mailing list (where I lurked) closed in > July 2014, too. > > Anyways, I still love Ragel as a tool/language and have used it > in other projects. For now, it seems to work, but I'm hesitant > to start new projects using it. >
