[openbeos] Re: New Build System

On 2005-10-31 at 11:20:38 [+0100], Axel Dörfler wrote:
> Ingo Weinhold <bonefish@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > > > 1. Jam 2.5rc3 Required
> > > BTW on the Perforce site, it looks like Jam 2.5 was released in
> > > April
> > > 2003 - is this version different from what we have? Can our fixes
> > > not
> > > be returned into the main tree?
> > I'm afraid jam hasn't been that actively maintained for a while.
> > There were
> > like 5 message from Christopher Seiwald (the official maintainer) on
> > the
> > jamming mailing in the last two years. Unless I missed it, I don't
> > even
> > think the official 2.5 release (being just a renaming of 2.5rc3) was
> > announced there.
> 
> Hm, and there is no interest from Perforce to let another maintainer
> take over that project?

Well, I suspect the Christopher still is the maintainer, it just appears, 
that he hasn't invested much time in the project lately.

> Anyway, since we're then obviously using 2.5 (and 2.5rc3), maybe we
> should start referring to it as 2.5 - so that no one (including me)
> thinks we don't use the current version?

Sure, I'll synchronize with the latest source tar ball from Perforce, so 
that a "jam -v" reports "2.5", too.

CU, Ingo

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