Re: [Slashcode-general] Jumping in here late ... Slashcode is Dead ...

[Axel B. <ab...@no...>]

Hi,

great to see that not all people lost hope. :-)

On Mon, Sep 21, 2009 at 01:56:43PM -0300, Marc G. Fournier wrote:
> My prior desire is to modernize the technology ... newer perl, newer 
> apache, newer mysql, improved postgresql support ... to me, those are the 
> easy parts though ...

There is a patch from 2004 at
http://www.crackerjack.net/slash-2.2.6-modperl2.diff.txt against the last
stable release 2.2.6.

Another thing Slashcode needs (at least WRT the public) is a release
management. Proper stable releases and changelogs. This will help
people who package software for distributions a lot.

> Someone from the Debian camp pointed out taht lack of Apache 2.x support 
> was a major hindrance from the Debian side ...

That was me, the last maintainer of slash in Debian.

> any out there able to do Debian packages if I can get Apache 2.2
> support in there?

I would at least have a look at it, but I won't promise anything...

> If there is enough interest in doing this, we could probably get a 
> SlashCode3.0 out the door in <30 days, whose primary focus is just to get 
> the technology up to '09 standards ... and then build from there ...

Sounds promising, but when I remember my last (project internal)
Slashcode hacking party, I'm not that optimistic. (And I'm usually
more the optimist. But OTOH that was many, many years ago and we all
were young and unexperienced... ;-)

		Regards, Axel
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