Re: Debian package and development of CONS

[H. S. Teoh]

On Tue, Aug 26, 2003 at 12:30:57AM +0200, Pierre THIERRY wrote:
> I recently discovered CONS, but I also discovered it was not maintained
> anymore in Debian. The  (the fate? ;-) made that the Debian maintainer
> just orphaned CONS with some other packages as I wanted to ask him if he
> would mind to...

I'm also a DD, and I was surprised to see cons orphaned. I use Cons a lot,
and was in fact considering adopting the package, but didn't because I'm
not sure if I have the time to do a good job of it. 

> I'm applying to the become a Debian Developper, and I'll try to package
> CONS 2.3, as best as I can. I also saw that there is no stable release
> since the 2.2, three years ago, and that the last development release
> has been amde more than two years ago.
> 
> Is CONS still in development? I would be interested by joining the core
> developers team, and help with CONS. I'll try to provide at least some
> enahncements to the documentation.
[snip]

There was some talk some months ago on this list about incorporating
Cons++ features into Cons and making a final(?) release. I haven't seen
much progress since then, however. It seems that people are more
interested in SCons.

Personally, I'm up for re-writing Cons to be more amenable to
multithreaded builds. If the current Cons maintainers have no more
time/interest to work on Cons, I'm considering taking it over. 


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