[Gnu-arch-users] New arch-magic releases are available

[Mikhael Goikhman]

This message is meant to inform of the availability of new archzoom,
axp, archway and arch-perl releases. These projects implement a
web-based, a command-line-based and a GUI front-ends to Arch.

Various bug-fixes and new features were implemented. The latest tla and
baz versions are better supported now. For the release notes, see:

  http://migo.sixbit.org/software/arch-magic/release-notes-20051008

Further information, source tarballs and rpms are available from the
project home pages:

  http://migo.sixbit.org/software/archzoom/
  http://migo.sixbit.org/software/axp/
  http://www.nongnu.org/archway/
  http://migo.sixbit.org/software/arch-perl/


The Future of arch-magic
------------------------

The latest events are sad. It seems that neither Tom Lord nor Canonical
are interested in developing Arch anymore. And noone yet volunteered as
the new maintainer.

In any case, the arch-magic users and distributions that package
arch-magic projects will continue to get support. We will continue to
fix bugs and support new versions of tla and baz (if any).

The code base is quite good, so it may eventually find a life in new
projects. However, there are currently no plans to switch to another
revision control system, because, in our opinion, Arch is still the
best one available.

Regards,
Mikhael.