[Plash] Plash status?

[gkrichar]

I love plash. I've used it to make something completely insane a  
reality (a wiki in which most of the code for the wiki software is  
part of the wiki itself and editable by anyone, http://hackiki.org/ ),  
and it's stood up to all attempts at hackery thusfar. And there have  
been attempts at hackery :P

However, I am concerned by the development status. The last release is  
over two years old now, and the latest commit to the SVN repo is 7  
months old ... neither of these necessarily mean anything, but they  
don't bode well. Thanks to Debian's slow release cycle, the latest  
Plash still works on the latest (stable) Debian release, but as others  
have pointed out, it's quite out of date with respect to Ubuntu's  
release cycle, and I'm concerned that when Debian eventually makes  
another release, I'll end up having to hang back indefinitely to keep  
with Plash. And of course we all know that "Debian stable" already  
means "Debian obsolete", so "Debian oldstable" is "Debian horrifically  
obsolete". I could try to up-port Plash myself in this eventuality,  
but I just don't know enough about the system to do that.

It's also concerning that Debian has switched from glibc to eglibc,  
not sure how much that affects plash's glibc port (if at all).

Anywho, I'm just wondering if I can get a reassuring (or damning) word  
with respect to the development status of Plash?

 - Gregor Richards