[Bacula-users] MTX Announcement

[Robert N. <ro...@th...>]

I'm now the owner / maintainer of the mtx project (
http://sourceforge.net/projects/mtx ).  

 

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  The current stable version is over 4 years old and quite out
of date.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.