Thanks for the quick reply, Paul. 2009/10/30 Paul Wise <p...@debian.org>
> On Fri, 2009-10-30 at 13:16 +0100, Tristan Schmelcher wrote: > > > I'm just writing to let you know that I recently forked MTASC, the > > Motion-Twin ActionScript 2.0 compiler, which is packaged in both > > Debian and Ubuntu as "mtasc". Motion-Twin has ceased development of > > MTASC and my attempts to get patches submitted fell on deaf ears, so I > > have made a new site and released a new version, 1.15. See > > http://sourceforge.net/projects/mtasc/ for the code and binaries. > > Tristan, I know how you feel, some of my simple Debian patches are still > waiting as far as I know. > > Nicolas, when will you be able to merge our patches? > > Nicolas, even if you do merge Tristan's patches, I think it would be a > good idea to turn mtasc development over to the community and moving > everything to a sourceforge project is probably the best way to do that. > Would you consider doing that? One issue with doing that is the extc > static library, which is currently an embedded code copy in mtasc. I > guess that could be moved to its own project too. > > Tristan, why are you not distributing a source code tarball? > > I read over SourceForge's current policy docs and couldn't find any reference to their old requirement that projects release source tarballs, so I assumed it was no longer required. The source is all in SVN of course. I'm not committed against source tarballs though. > Tristan, if you haven't yet looked at the Git version control system, > I'd strongly suggest doing so. If you need someone to do a good > conversion from CVS -> SVN -> Git, I'd be happy to help out since I have > a fair bit of experience with that. > I'm aware of Git, though I don't have much experience with it. From what I know of Git it sounds awesome, but it also sounds like most of its benefits are for projects with large numbers of contributors and patches (e.g., the Linux kernel). I don't expect a fork of MTASC to have either, so I'm not sure the gains would be worth the migration effort. > > > The new version adds two major features: support for classes > > containing more than 32 KB of bytecode, and support for Flash 9. These > > changes have been in use internally at Google for almost two years > > with no problems. > > I'm sure mtasc users would very much appreciate these two features. > > > I'd be pleased if you would consider updating your mtasc packages to > > the new version. > > I'm not actually using the Debian mtasc package and am only maintaining > it out of inertia. If you would like to take it over and upload your > fork to Debian (which would then be automatically copied to Ubuntu), I'd > be happy to sponsor you until you become a DD or get DM privileges. > > You might want to contact the maintainers of the FreeBSD and Fink > packages too, you can find them using the 'whohas' tool in Debian: > > http://www.philippwesche.org/200811/whohas/intro.html > > -- > bye, > pabs > > http://wiki.debian.org/PaulWise >
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