[mdb-dev] [mdbtools-dev] Many patches, is that project dead? Fork?

[Nirgal V. <con...@ni...>]

Hi

I've been trying to improve mdbtools and found it quite frustrating seeing no response at all on that mailing list... Last commit was 3 years ago.

This is my last message before setting up a new public repository.

I now have quite a lot of patches over svn trunk, mostly from Debian:
patches/015-allsyms
	Add the necessary sql and odbc library dependencies.
patches/038-removals
	Factorisation of code for macro/module/query/report
patches/041-eggiconlist
	Icons, gtk
patches/045-aboutdialog
	Use of gtk_show_about_dialog rather than custom widget
patches/055-iconv-config
	Do not #include <config.h> in public headers.
patches/056-libmdb-data
	Prevent infinite recursion when database contains infinite floats.
patches/070-unixodbc-api
	Fix 64-bit issues with the ODBC support.
patches/090-mdb-hexdump-argc
	Get mdb-hexdump usage statement to print.
patches/092-odbc-close-connections
	Make odbc_close actually disconnect from the database.
patches/094-add-man-pages
	Add man pages for several binaries.
patches/096-use-system-txt2man
	Use system txt2man.
patches/100-postgres-types
	Fix postgres backend types (UUID, TEXT, BYTEA)
patches/110-export-csv-null
	Don't output "" when exporting null values.
patches/120-decrypt
	Support for encrypted files.
patches/130-export-smallfloat
	Fix for small flats
patches/140-mdb-tables
	Fixes in mdb-table command line tool
patches/150-backend-quote
	Use backend/dialect specific quotation when generating SQL, for support of spaces in tables names and other problematic characters.
patches/155-blob
	Support of Blobs
patches/160-foreign-keys
	Support for postgres foreign keys and ON UPDATE / ON DELETE.
patches/170-sequences
	Support for autonum as postgres sequences.


Is there an commiter left around? Or are they all gone?
What is their opinion of the above patches?
Any chance to get an read/write access?

I'm putting all this on http://www.nirgal.com/mdbtools/