Alexander E. Patrakov wrote: > Hello, > > there was no mail from Manuel Candales for two months or so. Does > anyone know what happened to him? > I have not heard from Manuel since a private email in October. I was to evaluate his latest code in the experimental branch. Due to other issues I have only partially completed this task. (Documentation must be totally rewritten to reflect his changes) > The problem for the LFS family of projects is that he was the only > active jhalfs developer, thus, the ALFS project either needs > additional developers, or has to be officially declared no longer > existing. Any volunteers? I am not volunteering, because I know > nothing about XSLT. > The books underwent a significant rework and Manuel had made enough changes to the supporting jhalfs code I stood back and was waiting for his code and the books to stabilize. (I know squat about XSLT)
> This is not the case of "everything works perfectly, thus no new > development" - in fact I had to patch jhalfs on LFS LiveCD in order to > fix a critical bug that prevents French users from running jhalfs, and > I want to have some known ALFS-related directions for possible future > CDs. > Other than your patch request there seemed to be zero interest in jhalfs. Jeremy had been making noises about reviving his c++ code and turning nALFS into jhalfs replacement. JHALFS seems to have run out of steam, Manuel and I have pushed this rock as far as we can, alone. There was/is talk of integrating package management into jhalfs which would require _more_ books mods and code changes (see the experimental branch). I am not available for extensive code work until next year. ::NOTE:: With nALFS being selected by LSB I don't expect it to change drastically to accommodate a PM. I will post your patch if it is still necessary. -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/alfs-discuss FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/faq/ Unsubscribe: See the above information page
