Please excuse this slightly off-topic posting.
People have wondered what I've done over the last 14 months and why further development on mod_ssl and my engagement in the OpenSSL and Apache projects had to be slowed down in this time. Most of my contributions were moved to the silent background. Some people even feared that Ralf is doing closed source software development now. No, the opposite is true. I'm still the same Open Source fanatic, believe me. I just avoided to make something public until is is really ready for the public. But since today the result of over one year of strong development is now publically available and I'm proudly announcing it: OpenPKG, the world of cross-platform RPM-based Unix software packaging. OpenPKG is one of the largest projects I've ever done in my life. My development team at Cable & Wireless Germany plus dozens of contributors have helped together since November 2000 to solve a problem I already tried to solve two times in the last 10 years. And the third solution OpenPKG is the one which finally successfully solved it (at least for me ;) We are using it in production since April 2001 to establish all customer servers in the Internet Solution Center (ISC) of Cable & Wireless Germany and certainly there will be some other groups in this world which benefit from our work, too. That's why it is both based on Open Source software and itself released again as Open Source. If you want to know more, glance over the attached PR text and visit our project site at http://www.openpkg.org/. Thanks for listening and... happy packaging! Oh, and we have also packaged OpenSSL and Apache+modssl in OpenPKG, of course ;) Yours, Ralf S. Engelschall [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.engelschall.com ========================================================================= Now available: OpenPKG 1.0 www.openpkg.org A flexible and powerful software packaging facility, OpenPKG eases installation and administration of Unix software across several platforms. It primarily targets the Unix platforms FreeBSD, Linux and Solaris, but is portable across mostly all modern Unix flavors. Consolidating different vendor approaches into a unified architecture, it assists in administration of large networks previously complicated by nonconformant systems. OpenPKG leverages proven technologies like Red Hat Package Manager (RPM) and neatly provides an additional system layer on top of the operating system. It is a fully self-contained with minimal external dependencies (no RPM pre-installation required), and installs itself by means of a tricky bootstrapping procedure with minimal operating system intrusion. OpenPKG especially supports multiple installation instances on the same system. OpenPKG was created in November 2000 and after over one year of development it is already a mature technology in production use. It is available as Open Source and is further maintained by both Ralf S. Engelschall's development team at Cable & Wireless Germany and their contributors. For more details visit: http://www.openpkg.org/ ftp://ftp.openpkg.org/ ========================================================================= ______________________________________________________________________ OpenSSL Project http://www.openssl.org User Support Mailing List [EMAIL PROTECTED] Automated List Manager [EMAIL PROTECTED]
