On Mon, Sep 21, 2009, Stefan Palm wrote:
> 1) After playing around a little with OpenPKG I'm wondering about this
> projects status. The last (official) release is dated from 2007-12-27,
> quite a lot of pages at "openpkg.org" are outdated and the mailings list
> seem to be rather "quiet". All this gave me the impression that this
> project is about to fade away. Is that correct?
No, OpenPKG certainly is not fading away. We were just too busy with
other earn-a-living jobs and OpenPKG 4.0 was still not ready until
recently. Hence we kept the websites around until we have something
new. Now that OpenPKG 4.0 is stable and already working on lots of
production servers, it will be officially released soon -- together with
a new website. That the last official bootstrap is from 2007-12-27 was
intentionally, as this was the last time we updated the old RPM 4 based
bootstrap. Since this time we worked on the RPM 5 based one for OpenPKG
4.0.
> 2) The FAQ states that "someday" OpenPKG might support dynamically
> linked (internal) libs. Are there any news on that?
No, not worth the effort as even in the days of GNU libtool it is an
endless effort when it comes to true cross-platform solutions like
OpenPKG. And beside faster updates in case of security issues (because
you don't have to rebuild the application) there is no real advantage
in practice. The disadvantages (portability issues) fully destroy the
advantages.
Ralf S. Engelschall
r...@engelschall.com
www.engelschall.com
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