Thanks for the quick reply, Paul.<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">2009/10/30 Paul Wise <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:pabs@debian.org">pabs@debian.org</a>></span><br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
<div class="im">On Fri, 2009-10-30 at 13:16 +0100, Tristan Schmelcher wrote:<br>
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> I'm just writing to let you know that I recently forked MTASC, the<br>
> Motion-Twin ActionScript 2.0 compiler, which is packaged in both<br>
> Debian and Ubuntu as "mtasc". Motion-Twin has ceased development of<br>
> MTASC and my attempts to get patches submitted fell on deaf ears, so I<br>
> have made a new site and released a new version, 1.15. See<br>
> <a href="http://sourceforge.net/projects/mtasc/" target="_blank">http://sourceforge.net/projects/mtasc/</a> for the code and binaries.<br>
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</div>Tristan, I know how you feel, some of my simple Debian patches are still<br>
waiting as far as I know.<br>
<br>
Nicolas, when will you be able to merge our patches?<br>
<br>
Nicolas, even if you do merge Tristan's patches, I think it would be a<br>
good idea to turn mtasc development over to the community and moving<br>
everything to a sourceforge project is probably the best way to do that.<br>
Would you consider doing that? One issue with doing that is the extc<br>
static library, which is currently an embedded code copy in mtasc. I<br>
guess that could be moved to its own project too.<br>
<br>
Tristan, why are you not distributing a source code tarball?<br>
<br></blockquote><div><br>I read over SourceForge's current policy docs and couldn't find any reference to their old requirement that projects release source tarballs, so I assumed it was no longer required. The source is all in SVN of course. I'm not committed against source tarballs though.<br>
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Tristan, if you haven't yet looked at the Git version control system,<br>
I'd strongly suggest doing so. If you need someone to do a good<br>
conversion from CVS -> SVN -> Git, I'd be happy to help out since I have<br>
a fair bit of experience with that.<br></blockquote><div><br>I'm aware of Git, though I don't have much experience with it. From what I know of Git it sounds awesome, but it also sounds like most of its benefits are for projects with large numbers of contributors and patches (e.g., the Linux kernel). I don't expect a fork of MTASC to have either, so I'm not sure the gains would be worth the migration effort.<br>
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<div class="im"><br>
> The new version adds two major features: support for classes<br>
> containing more than 32 KB of bytecode, and support for Flash 9. These<br>
> changes have been in use internally at Google for almost two years<br>
> with no problems.<br>
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</div>I'm sure mtasc users would very much appreciate these two features.<br>
<div class="im"><br>
> I'd be pleased if you would consider updating your mtasc packages to<br>
> the new version.<br>
<br>
</div>I'm not actually using the Debian mtasc package and am only maintaining<br>
it out of inertia. If you would like to take it over and upload your<br>
fork to Debian (which would then be automatically copied to Ubuntu), I'd<br>
be happy to sponsor you until you become a DD or get DM privileges.<br>
<br>
You might want to contact the maintainers of the FreeBSD and Fink<br>
packages too, you can find them using the 'whohas' tool in Debian:<br>
<br>
<a href="http://www.philippwesche.org/200811/whohas/intro.html" target="_blank">http://www.philippwesche.org/200811/whohas/intro.html</a><br>
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bye,<br>
pabs<br>
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