Re: [Netdisco] development?

[<A.L...@lb...>]

Hi,

> Looking at the mailing list there seems to be some use of Netdisco.  
> I'm curious to know what the development activity is. The last  
> release (0.94) was in December of 2004 though UCSC seems to be using  
> "0.95-cvs" which suggests that there is code being changed.
> 
> Are there any roadmaps or future plans for Netdisco?

there is more recent code in CVS. 0.94 was the last stable release - no
good throwing anything unstable into the open. There have been many additional
manufacturers switche added to netdisco capability and code tweaks to get
netdisco to work with the components of recent distributions. 
Recently Max announced that he is to step away from lead developer
of the product and the plans to coordinate this move are still underway.

FWIW just because the last stable release is from a year ago, doesnt mean
the code is useless, dead or rotting  - there are several tools I use day-to-day
that havent been updated since 2001 ! (fortunately there are a few mailing
lists where the one or two line changes required to get such code to compile
on todays distributions is stored ;-)

alan