Hydroponic Common Platform / News: Recent posts

Lots of Hydro work going on on my box, but I haven't put it in CVS yet.

CVS is up. Go ahead and check it out if you want to. :)

I'm still waiting for the CVS to get imported. In the meantime, I'm going to be playing with BeOS. :-) I'm trying to figure out how Hydroponic can target it too -- shouldn't be a difficulty.
The Policy Document is coming along nicely. It should be done by tomorrow, I think.

First off, I'd like to inform you that I'm designing a policy document to maintain quality in the Hydroponic code base. All work is currently concentrated on completing this document so it can be used in further development. (Yes, I do intend to begin finding help on the project once it hits 0-1.2.1. I want to have a working product before I pull anyone else in.)

On to another odd fact. After a few bugs/tracker entries, one release, and a couple news items, the Hydroponic project is now at the 88% percentile (about 1000-something in the list) of activity on projects. I'd say the activity on the project is just about borderline to keep a project afloat (heck, my CVS isn't even imported yet!). This means that at least 80% of SourceForge projects are no longer being actively worked on. That's a damn shame, and a waste of resources.
Personally, I think that the SourceForge team should look into removing completely stagnant projects. I know that's against their current policy, but I think it'd probably end up helping other, active projects. (By stagnant I mean "no activity for a year, no releases ever." Unfortunately, there are a lot of those.)
Anyway, that's enough of that for now. Better get off my soapbox. :)

After a few hours of fierce hacking, I turned out the first version of "Hydroserver" (in quotes because it is not yet, technically, a server).
This release mainly consists of the foundation of the object environment used in Hydroponic and a few test programs, which are pretty cool for my naive self.
Everything's fully autoconfiscated and I'm working on documentation at this moment.
You can grab the source tarball here:
https://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=49659&release_id=81611
To compile one of the examples, you need GNU readline4. You also need to be running a system capable of running the configure script. ... read more