So, seeing that noone recently talked about g/fbsd related things, I decided to write a post by myself.
First of all, some people asked me if the project is dead. I want to answer that the project is still alive even if you did not hear about it recenlty. People like Javier ( The_Paya ) or Alexis ( aballier ) are doing an huge work to port g/fbsd to 7.0. I’m currently writing some documentation + testing some packages ( most of them have been keyworded recently ). IMHO one of the main problem is that those people aren’t prone to write about progresses of their work, so seems that g/fbsd have fallen in a black hole and it it’ve been so far from being discussed from community. This _doesn’t_ mean that the project is dead. Again, the project is _still_ alive.
Maybe you’re wondering: “why so slow?” [referring to releases, testing, commits, keywording, etc..] the team is actually waiting on some key bugs to get into portage fixed before adding the 7.0 ebuilds and profile to portage. One on gcc, which is just waiting for another revbump of 4.3.1 I think, (#192403, actually waiting on vapier) and another one for automake/libtool on the eclasses auto patching for elibtoolize (#196728, this one is waiting on both vapier and flameeyes >.<). With these fixes “in” a lot of things that do not work out of the box will do, so it will be much easier to make a decent upgrade path from 6.x to 7.0 (which is currently almost impossible without breaking your system).
See you soon w/ new updates.
dav
that’s great to hear. i also though that the project was gone.
Comment by yoshi314 — July 26, 2008 @ 4:13 pm