Re: Object-Archiv

[Chris B. Vetter]

On Thu, 3 Jul 2003 11:17:06 +0200
Stefan Böhringer <stefan.boehringer+usenet@uni-bochum.de> wrote:
> Perhaps I can put into this discussion some experiences gained from
> the famous MiscKit that was in place in the NeXTstep/OPENSTEP days.
> You can still obtain information about that project on
> http://misckit.com [Don, if you are on this list, please chip in].

IIRC, about a year (or two?) ago, Don announced a new version of MiscKit
for OSX. I've been checking the URL every now and then, but it still
looks kinda dead...

> One conclusion is that definitely cvs access is a must. Don Yacktman
> did an excellent job over many years to apply patches in his source
> tree and bring out releases frequently [this was in times when
> anonymous cvs was alien]. Then NeXTStep/OPENSTEP ran into trouble and
> Don didn't have the capacities to do the laborious maintenance job any
> more which brought the project to a halt.

... which got me started on something similar to MiscKit.

If there really is interest, I can offer access to CVS and a Wiki.

-- 
Chris