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RE: List of package owners


Robert wrote:
> 
> Sure. I'm interested.
> I already downloaded the package from CVS.
> 

Okay - I'll not bother looking any further into things myself for now.

> 
> Gareth wrote:
> > Hmm despite the apparent lack of upstream development on this one - m4
> is
> > pretty rock solid (compared to astyle at least) ... I'll have a deeper
> look
> > to see if I'm willing to offer on this one.

Chuck wrote:

> 
> Well, actually Gary V. Vaughan has been working hard on m4 all summer.
> If you grab CVS
> 
> cvs -d :pserver:anoncvs@subversions.gnu.org:/cvsroot/m4 login anonymous
> <hit enter for password>
> cvs -d :pserver:anoncvs@subversions.gnu.org:/cvsroot/m4 co m4
> 
> you'll see that the whole thing has been modularized with plugins.  I
> sent Gary some patches last week and he incorporated them, but there are
> still a number of issues with building it cleanly on cygwin.

Interesting - my preliminary investigation found a version with modularised
plugins "this close to releasing 1.5" - last updated 3 years ago.

Good to hear there's some development again.

Gareth


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