Hallo,
attached is another perfect example of one of the mechanism ESR
described in his talk. It is atalk being taken over by Adrian Sun, who
vastly improved it. Seems like the Umich guys somehow don' t have the
largest shotgun :-), or don't feel the need to protect their land.
Joerg
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From: Alain RICHARD <alain_richard@EQUATION.FR>
Subject: netatalk-1.4b2+asun2.1.3
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Hi,
it seems that Adrian Sun has just released a new netatalk version. I have
several question regarding this developpement and all the asun2.x versions :
- As far as I know, asun is now the only maintainer of netatalk (and it
seems to make a pretty good job at maintaining netatalk and hfs in the
linux kernel). Why http://www.umich.edu/~rsug/netatalk/index.html isn't
maintained or why there is not an other page for the Adrian's version ?
This situation is very bad because almost all persons searching for
netatalk informations are directed to the very old and unmaintained UMich
site.
- Why not completly replacing netatalk-1.4b2 (that is 3 years old) by the
new adrian's version and naming it netatalk-2.1.3 for example ?
- Who is maintening the RPM distribution of netatalk ? It seems iNOUE
Koichi is doing a pretty good package with the currents Adrian's versions
(you may find it under
<ftp://rufus.w3.org/linux/1/contrib/libc6/SRPMS/netatalk-1.4b2+asun2.1.2-4.src.
r
pm>). I think it may be a good idea to includes the works of iNOUE into the
Adrian's distribution (mainly the spec file and the patches to matche the
redhat distribution filepaths). Also the iNOUE startup file is asynchronous
and better than the official one (that anoyingly waits for zip and
nbpregisters at startup !).
- Is there any informations about the new capabilities of the Adrian's
version. For example it seems he had implemented a new AppleDouble format
(v2 format) and a news Directory Ids Database. What is the status of this
support ? How to cleanly enables it ? Is it compatible with the current
AppleDouble v1 format ?
More generaly, there is a lack of documentation and support and it may be a
good idea to federate all the efforts around netatalk. It's just my $0.02,
but I and probably several other people may be ready to offert some help
doing it.
Regards,
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Alain RICHARD <mailto:alain_richard@equation.fr>
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