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From: Philip Koopman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Mon, Jul 21, 2008 at 5:10 PM
Subject: Re: Ballista project ownership
To: Garrett Cooper <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>


On Mon, 21 Jul 2008 15:37:47 -0700, "Garrett Cooper"
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

>Hello Prof. Koopman,
>       I'm an LTP contributor and am contacting you about the Ballista
>project, because you're still listed as the Principal Investigator for
>the project.
>       My questions are:
>       1. Who now maintains the Ballista project? I ask because I
>found a few compilation issues that should be fixed, and some
>assumptions that were made which should be corrected, in particular
>dealing with cross-compilation, etc.

It is unmaintained, as noted on the distribution web site.

>       2. What's the intended scope / use case for the project -- i.e.
>Linux only, or multi-platform? Seems as if the original intention was
>for multiple platforms, as I gathered from the configure Perl script.

multiple platforms, but it is really old and many of the underlying
tools have changed so much that I doubt the code will run on most
current platforms.

If you want to update it and put it on sourceforge, for example, that
would be fine with me.

>       3. Are any other groups using Ballista at this time or have
>there been any other groups that have expressed an interest in
>Ballista outside of using LTP?

A number of companies started with Ballista and then morphed it to
internal (proprietary) tools I believe.  I don't know of anyone
providing a publicly available porting of it.

I appreciate your interest.  Ballista is not in our current scope of
work and we don't have resources to maintain/support it.


Phil Koopman
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Forwarding with Phil's permission.
-Garrett

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