Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S262409AbTE2RMN (ORCPT ); Thu, 29 May 2003 13:12:13 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S262422AbTE2RMN (ORCPT ); Thu, 29 May 2003 13:12:13 -0400 Received: from smtp1.wanadoo.es ([62.37.236.135]:14788 "EHLO smtp.wanadoo.es") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S262409AbTE2RMM (ORCPT ); Thu, 29 May 2003 13:12:12 -0400 Message-ID: <3ED6426F.6010807@wanadoo.es> Date: Thu, 29 May 2003 19:25:03 +0200 From: Xose Vazquez Perez User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.0.1) Gecko/20021003 X-Accept-Language: gl, es, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: linux-kernel , miquels@cistron-office.nl Subject: Re: [announce] procps 2.0.13 with NPTL enhancements X-Enigmail-Version: 0.63.3.0 X-Enigmail-Supports: pgp-inline, pgp-mime Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Miquel van Smoorenburg wrote: >In article <1054138948.783.179.camel@localhost>, Robert Love wrote: >>On Wed, 2003-05-28 at 23:19, Phil Oester wrote: >> >>> Any comment on the procps v3.1.8 located here: >>> >>> http://procps.sourceforge.net/ >>> >>> Seems it is actively maintained... >> >>It is a fork of the original procps tree. >Well, you could also argue that the current 2.0 tree is a >retroactive fork of an older version of procps. >I don't understand why you don't work together. --from the http://procps.sourceforge.net/faq.html -- Why are there so many procps projects? The original maintainer seems to have had little time for procps. Whatever his reasons, the project didn't get maintained. Starting in 1997, Albert Cahalan wrote a new ps program for the package. For the next few years, Albert quietly helped the Debian package maintainer fix bugs. In 2001, Rik van Riel decided to do something about what appeared to be the lack of a maintainer. He picked up the buggy old code in Red Hat's CVS and started adding patches. Meanwhile, other people have patched procps in a great many ways. In 2002, Albert moved procps to this site. This was done to ensure that years of testing and bug fixes would not be lost. The major version number was changed to 3, partly to avoid confusing users and partly because the top program has been redone. --end-- I think too that is to waste the time&resources to have two, and to do a little different some LiNUX distributions in a basic and important package but if both have freetime... ;-) regards, -- Software is like sex, it's better when it's bug free. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/