On Sunday 04 February 2007 22:08, Robert Nelson wrote: > I'm now the owner / maintainer of the mtx project ( > http://sourceforge.net/projects/mtx ).
Gee Robert, this is really great news. I'm really amazed. When I first started working on Bacula, I submitted some changes to him that eliminated the need for gmake and used only standard make syntax because a lot of Unix distributions don't run gmake. The project was stalled enough that he didn't even want to look at the changes -- no loss of functionality for more portability. Anyway, I'll need to think about it for a while, but there are two things I have always wanted: 1. Portable Makefiles (or at least support for Solaris, SGI, ... where gmake isn't always the installed make). 2. A mode (probably command line option) that would produce output in a well documented machine readable format, so that programs like Bacula could easily interprete the output, which is sometimes slightly modified by certain packages, making the mtx-changer script more complicated. Of course, the above is just wishlist items. The important part is that the program runs as it does now, supports as many autochangers as possible, and is stable. Nice going, Kern > > > > This means that we can get any changes, that we need, integrated back into > the standard releases. One of the first things I did while porting the web > site from Eric's machine to SourceForge was add Bacula (with a link to our > webpage) to the examples of applications that can be used with mtx. :-) > > > > Please let me know if you know of any outstanding patches or feature > requests. > > > > The project has been converted from CVS to Subversion. > > > > I released a new version (1.3.10) of the development tree, the first new > version in a year and only the second new version in 5 years. This new > version incorporates my changes to support Windows as well as support for > the Sony VGP-XL1B 200 Disc CD/DVD Changer. > > > > I've redesigned the Compatibility Database and the Web pages that are used > to access and update it. It should be much easier to browse the existing > entries and to report your success with various Media Changers. > > > > Please take the time to try version 1.3.10 and report the compatibility > results. ( http://mtx.sourceforge.net/contrib.php ) Once the current > development version has received enough testing I'll be promoting it to > stable status. The current stable version is over 4 years old and quite > out of date. This will make the current version available much more widely > since the Linux distributions usually only pick up the stable versions. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Using Tomcat but need to do more? Need to support web services, security? Get stuff done quickly with pre-integrated technology to make your job easier. Download IBM WebSphere Application Server v.1.0.1 based on Apache Geronimo http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnk&kid=120709&bid=263057&dat=121642 _______________________________________________ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
