On Tue, 09 May 2006 16:43:02 +0200 Hans Kinwel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> spake:
> I thought to download a more or less current version of mon. > > According to http://sourceforge.net/projects/mon/ mon-0.38.20 is > the current version, with a timestamp of 2000-08-29, it even has an > "ANNOUNCE" file. > > According to ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/software/admin/mon/ it says > "LATEST-STABLE-IS-0.99.2" with a timestamp of 09/08/2001 > > For the daredevils there's a "devel" tree, with loads of mon-0.99*, all > timestamped 2003/2004, and I personally run already for years mon-1.0pre4 > without any significant problem. > > Also I see loads of mon-1.0pre* but nowhere a mon-1.0.tar.gz, but I *do* > see mon-1.1.0pre? files. So I guess mon went from 1.0pre5 to 1.1pre1, > whilst skipping any "stable" or "this is our current baseline" mention. > > This is all rather disheartening. > > Cleaning out the tree would take no more than fifteen minutes, and would > consist of deleting all references (maybe under "obsolete") to 0.38 and > 0.99 versions, and making a symlink from mon.1.0.gz to mon.1.0pre5.gz. To add to this comment... While I love mon and continue to use it... I darned near almost passed it up due to the last stable version being Aug 2000. I figured it was a dead project if nothing happened. Of course I still ended up here. Just something to consider... Bill -- Bill Chmura Director of Internet Technology Explosivo ITG Wolcott, CT _______________________________________________ mon mailing list [email protected] http://linux.kernel.org/mailman/listinfo/mon
