On Sun, 27 Feb 2005 15:04:59 +0900, Csaba Henk
<csaba / phony_for_avoiding_spam.org> wrote:
> On 2005-02-25, Danie Roux <droux / tuks.co.za> wrote:
> > On Fri, Feb 25, 2005 at 09:00:11PM +0900, George  Moschovitis wrote:
> >> Is this distribution still maintained?
> >>
> >> -g.
> >
> > George,
> >
> > Yes it is.
> 
> When I was peeking at it at last time, I found it quite strange that it
> uses rar as its package archive format.
> 
> I'm not that orthodox about using only free software, but why to use a
> propietary one with no reason? Moreover, apart from that, why to do
> something in non-standard way without reason? Even if it's better than
> tar.* there can't be a significant difference. I remember that I
> extracted a (bz2'd) tarball of mine, re-archived with rar, and it just
> grew bigger...
> 
> Apart from that, the package manager seemed to be quite clever. I also
> wrote one, sharing the same basic idea, just not in ruby, but sh + c...
> 

It is going under a complete rewrite (still in Ruby AFAIK). The new
version will probably debut under a new name (Heretix seemed to win
out on the ML). Andrew mentioned some sort of release (preview or
not?) this week-end though as hes accomplished a lot already and has
gone through having a case of the flu I would not hold him to any
deadline.

I have been waiting on this release to begin real work on enabling
installation under the home directory of a user (not unlike
gobo-linux). I hope this will allow Heretix/Rubyx to become more
accessible to people who can't or don't want to install a separate OS
from the one they use now (limited to Linux of course, probably 2.6
too). I have all kinds of crazy ideas but this is one I want to take a
stab at (I have yet to see how easy it will be with the new design).

Also notable, WhiteWater has been working great but a new P2P system,
DRUSS, is in the works. I don't think a parallel Heretix + DRUSS
release will happen but keep you eyes open for this one.

> Csaba
> 
> 

Brian.