Re: steptalk - page, current status, release

[Wolfgang Lux]

Hi Riccardo,

> in the slow process of updating our site (JIGS/RIGS still in progress) we 
> have StepTalk. The pages are incredibly old, obsolete and contain totally 
> outdated information.
> Who follows StepTalk? is there an "unofficial" maintainer? I have searched on 
> the web and it seems that there are (or were) some users and interested posts.
> 
> http://www.gnustep.org/experience/StepTalk.html
> 
> Right now I made some essential changed:
> 1) updated the look in a quick way (although more work is needed)
> 2) change dall references of the source code from the old CVS (!!!!) to SVN, 
> including instructions, code browser and other references
> 
> It has a long list of packages in the download section, but all of them 
> except the last version, 0.8, are not valid anymore. Where they removed?
> 
> Are you all (or the current persons who care about StepTalk) in favour of 
> purging all those dead references and keeping the only tarball link which is:
> ftp://ftp.gnustep.org/pub/gnustep/libs/StepTalk-0.10.0.tar.gz
> 
> Or are the old tarball moved elsewhere ?
> 
> What is the status of StepTalk at all?  I have seen that there are some 
> commits of Wolfgang which are more recent than the last release, perhaps it 
> makes sense to make a a maintenance release. Or is more work needed?

A new release of StepTalk is long overdue (if only to get it to compile with 
recent gnustep versions). There is also a long list of bug fixes in the 
ChangeLogs (and I have a few more to come that I'd like to see included in a 
new release).

Wolfgang