For the past 11 months or so, it seems that there has been no activity
in Linkage - no posts to this discussion list, no SVN changes, and no
new release. This leads me to believe that Is Linkage is no longer
being actively developed and/or maintained - is this truly the case?
Is there work on-going, at the very least, for the libtorrent 0.13.x
to 0.14.x API changes?
Unfortanetly Linkage is pretty much unmaintained at the moment. Some
of the code is quite old and needs to be rewritten (mostly the GUI
parts) but I haven't found the motivation to code on it. I might do
something this spring but I won't give any promises, always fun to
know there's still interest in the project though :)
If you feel like hacking away at it yourself let me know and I'll hook
you up with svn access.
> For the past 11 months or so, it seems that there has been no activity
> in Linkage - no posts to this discussion list, no SVN changes, and no
> new release. This leads me to believe that Is Linkage is no longer
> being actively developed and/or maintained - is this truly the case?
> Is there work on-going, at the very least, for the libtorrent 0.13.x
> to 0.14.x API changes?
On Mar 1, 2:28 pm, Lunke <zefl...@gmail.com> wrote:
> [Unfortunately] Linkage is pretty much unmaintained at the moment. Some
[...]
> If you feel like hacking away at it yourself let me know and I'll hook
> you up with svn access.
I'm sorry to say I have no real interest in Linkage hacking. In fact,
it's somewhat the opposite.
My real reason for this inquiry was that currently, Fedora's Linkage
build requires an older libtorrent version (0.13.x) to be maintained
in the repositories; and I'd really like to bump that to the recent
release series (0.14.x) for better features (and libtorrent upstream
support); and it would also allow Deluge's package to decrease in size
and complexity (since there would no longer be the need for using an
in-tarball libtorrent copy inside Deluge, for one). This would also
allow better support for other libtorrent-based packages in Fedora,
such as qbitorrent and Miro)
However, until now the need for that as a dependency of the Linkage
package prevented me from updating it in the deemed-stable Fedora (9,
10) releases - since that would break API/ABI compatibility. The whole
point of my question about this is that I was wondering if it would be
reasonable to discontinue those downstream efforts (led by drago01) of
Fedora's Linkage package in order to more fully support these other
packages such as Deluge and Miro, et al.
I don't want to seem cold-hearted or such; but is it safe to presume,
then, that Linkage is more or less dead upstream? Are there plans to
resurrect/fork it or take it in a different path?
Thanks very much for your replies; and for all the work you've done on
Linkage up until now. :)
Ah, I see. In that case I'd recommend you drop Linkage in favour of LT
0.14. Linkage is indeed dead atm so from a package maintainer's point
of view it makes no sense holding on to it.
> On Mar 1, 2:28 pm, Lunke <zefl...@gmail.com> wrote:
>> [Unfortunately] Linkage is pretty much unmaintained at the moment. Some
> [...]
>> If you feel like hacking away at it yourself let me know and I'll hook
>> you up with svn access.
> I'm sorry to say I have no real interest in Linkage hacking. In fact,
> it's somewhat the opposite.
> My real reason for this inquiry was that currently, Fedora's Linkage
> build requires an older libtorrent version (0.13.x) to be maintained
> in the repositories; and I'd really like to bump that to the recent
> release series (0.14.x) for better features (and libtorrent upstream
> support); and it would also allow Deluge's package to decrease in size
> and complexity (since there would no longer be the need for using an
> in-tarball libtorrent copy inside Deluge, for one). This would also
> allow better support for other libtorrent-based packages in Fedora,
> such as qbitorrent and Miro)
> However, until now the need for that as a dependency of the Linkage
> package prevented me from updating it in the deemed-stable Fedora (9,
> 10) releases - since that would break API/ABI compatibility. The whole
> point of my question about this is that I was wondering if it would be
> reasonable to discontinue those downstream efforts (led by drago01) of
> Fedora's Linkage package in order to more fully support these other
> packages such as Deluge and Miro, et al.
> I don't want to seem cold-hearted or such; but is it safe to presume,
> then, that Linkage is more or less dead upstream? Are there plans to
> resurrect/fork it or take it in a different path?
> Thanks very much for your replies; and for all the work you've done on
> Linkage up until now. :)
