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Re: Removal of felix from Debian?




On 17/04/2009, at 6:37 PM, Stéphane Glondu wrote:

Hello,

Felix currently has low popcon, is RC-buggy (even though I thing the bug
is not relevant), not in stable (has been stuck in unstable for 323
days) and I would say not maintained. The build system is unusual and a
hell to debug (been there). I suggest to remove felix from Debian.

I've been to #felix on freenode and asked there for their opinion. It
seems that Erick Tryzelaar is taking the lead on upstream development of Felix, and some people do use it. However, he told me to remove it from Debian, as the next upstream release (if any) might be quite different.

What't your opinion on this?


Probably reasonable course of action. We don't have the
resources to maintain the Debian packaging.

However the bugs encountered have been found to be
bugs on various platforms, or in Ocaml, not in Felix.

The old build system *was* unusual .. it actually built
on Windows without modification (including running
all the regression tests, which are considered part
of the build). Seen any other platform independent
build systems around?

Anyhow, Erick is rewriting the build system from scratch
to be more "conventional", and I'm cutting the language
features down drastically so there's some hope of maintaining it.

Perhaps we can put it back in Debian again
when (and if) the product stabilises.

Sigh .. I miss my Linux (forced to run on a Mac now,
because I live on a boat and none of the wireless
networks in Australia support Linux),

--
john skaller
skaller@users.sourceforge.net





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