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




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Bill Chmura
Director of Internet Technology
Explosivo ITG
Wolcott, CT

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