[Linux-decnet-user] Future of dnprogs

[Patrick C. <pa...@ty...>]

With good luck and a following wind I will be releasing dnprogs 2.07 this
weekend. This has a number of bug-fixes and a lot of work relating to the 2.4
kernel and the Debian package.

This will be the last set of binary packages I will do for the 2.2 kernel. From
2.08 (whenever that may be) the RPMs on the web site will be for Linux 2.4. I
will maintain source code compatability with 2.2 though so that the programs
will still work for both but those people using 2.2 will need to build from
sources - the reverse of the current situation.

The Debian package has undergone a great deal of improvement since 2.06 and will
see much more in the future, and that work will also be applied to latd. Also, I
have been accepted as a Debian maintainer so sometime in the future DECnet and
LAT will become part of that distribution.

This will have the nice effect that Debian should become trivially easy to set
up DECnet - my goal is to have the command "apt-get install dnet-progs" do all
the hard work for you!

The new Debian system will look like this:

libdnet      # Libraries and config files
dnet-progs   # The programs (dnetd, dndir, fal etc)
libdnet-dev  # Development libraries (static libs, .so links and headers)

Anyway, that is all in the future. If anyone has any objections, opinions about
this then let's have a chat about it.

patrick