[rescue] Alternatives to BIND?

[Gregory Leblanc]

On Fri, 2001-12-07 at 19:47, Greg A. Woods wrote:
> [ On , December 7, 2001 at 14:01:02 (-0800), Gregory Leblanc wrote: ]
> > Subject: Re: [rescue] Alternatives to BIND?
> >
> > If there is no traffic on the mailing list, and no replies from the
> > maintainer, it might as well be abandoned.
> 
> I think you may misunderstand how free software and volunteer projects
> work.  Nothing's ever "abandoned" unless the author says so.

Maybe not, but if there's no activity, then who cares if it's officially
abandoned or not?

> >  If you want anything done
> > with it, you're going to have to do it yourself (bug fix, tiny feature
> > change, whatever).  Now, if you -really- want it done on a maintained
> > project, you may have to do it yourself, but you have a chance to have
> > somebody else do it if you can wait.
> 
> Yea, and that's _always_ possible, regardless of how high or low
> something is on the author's or current maintainer's priority list; and
> of course assuming you or someone you can influence directly has the
> skill set.  Before the days of Linux and GNU Autoconf almost everyone
> managing any system knew enough about software maintenance to at least
> port something to their systems and hopefuly fix any bugs that got in
> their way too.
> 
> In other words the lack of publicly visible activity in any given
> project is not grounds for ignoring it.

Just that lack in and of itself, perhaps not.  But any other, uhm,
discrepancy, coupled with that, is.  I certainly think that ignoring the
software packages that Bill was looking at was a good idea.

On Fri, 2001-12-07 at 20:17, Joshua D Boyd wrote:
> On Fri, Dec 07, 2001 at 10:47:58PM -0500, Greg A. Woods wrote:
> On some autoconf projects, it can be hard figuring out enough about the compile
> process to find the errors, or fix them.  For instance, I can't snes9x to 
> compile, and the most recent few versions won't work either.  I know what the
> error is (is wants a .so when all I have is a .a for an XFree library, and I
> did use dpkg for setting up XFree), and I kinda no how to fix it (make it
> statically link to that lib), but I can't figure out how in the world to 
> modify the project to do that.  One of these days I'll get the hang of fixing
> autoconf problems, but these days I doubt that most admins would be as 
> persistant as me.
> 
> Source code bugs I often have a change of being able to fix.

Heh, we should team up.  I'm hopeless on c projects without spending way
too much time trying to remember how to program, but I'm getting pretty
good at auto*.
	Greg

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