Now I'm curious...

[Rob Landley]

On Friday 07 September 2007 11:18:18 am Nitin Gupta wrote:
> Hello Rob,
>
> I am curious now to find out if your curiosity got answered from this
> discussion?

My question was along the lines of "What's up with this?" so I'm not quite 
sure what form an answer would be expected to take...

> If yes, Could you please share your conclusions about uClibc future?

Well, here's what I found out:

1) Steven Hill isn't doing any kind of merge of the various NPTL forks.  
Nobody seems to be doing so.  The NPTL svn branch is not being actively 
developed at this time.

2) The last dozen patches applied to the main uClibc svn repository since its 
release were by the busybox maintainer.  The most recent of those was over a 
month ago.  There is nobody currently working on a 0.9.29.1. release, and the 
most likely candidate to _start_ doing so is me, except I don't mess with 
non-distributed source control systems anymore.  The current maintainer of 
the project hasn't been spotted here in over a month.

3) The freenode #uclibc channel is essentially dead.  The mailing list here 
isn't a major improvement.

4) I got a copy of Peter Mazinger's -hg tree a few days ago, and since then 
have watched him add more patches to it than -svn has seen since 0.9.29 was 
released.  (Currently, 1242 changes since 0.9.29.)  It doesn't currently work 
for me, but I continue to debug.

Unfortunately, Peter A) doesn't seem to want to have anything to do with this 
list, B) doesn't want a larger userbase for his tree yet.

From the #gentoo-embedded channel on freenode, earlier today:

[20:27] <landley> Could I mirror your tree at "http://landley.net/hg/plibc" 
with large warnings to the effect of "This is a development tree that's in 
progress and not really expected to work.  Don't bug Peter about it, he knows 
it's not finished and has a long todo list to work through.  Bug me instead.  
For amusement purposes only.  Not for internal use.  Do not taunt happy fun 
library." etc?
[20:30] <psm> landley: I dont think so, if you want to put it up, do it, but 
there won't be any updates to it later (I will disable the repository until I 
consider it usable), I do not intend to support it until I have ran basic 
tests, I do not have time for a larger userbase

I'll let you know if/when he changes his mind on either point.

Rob
-- 
"One of my most productive days was throwing away 1000 lines of code."
  - Ken Thompson.