> So for the past 5 years, it's been almost all the work of sds, Sam Steingold. Huh. I was expecting Bruno Haible to still be involved, but he seems to be doing almost nothing nowadays. Well, it's not unusual for a free project to be the labour of only a single person, but it's typical to have a lot of small drive-by contributions. Almost nobody except sds has done anything for CLISP for the last five years
This is how you smell a future dead project.
If only one person has done anything significantly, with nobody around to "pick up the chops" and learn the code-base, chances of anyone willing to pick up 147MB of sources and claiming responsibility for it is pretty slim.
On the flip side, we do have a gazillion free Common Lisp implementations around. If this one falls dead, will the Common Lisp community have lost anything of significance?
From what I can tell, the only ones "losing" something here would be GNU losing a thing they can claim being made by them, a feather from their highly featured hat.
But my general impression is that GNU is already critically understaffed anyway, so it might actually do them some good, and avoid having dead-weight like this steal resources from their remaining projects.
Opinions?
This is how you smell a future dead project.
If only one person has done anything significantly, with nobody around to "pick up the chops" and learn the code-base, chances of anyone willing to pick up 147MB of sources and claiming responsibility for it is pretty slim.
On the flip side, we do have a gazillion free Common Lisp implementations around. If this one falls dead, will the Common Lisp community have lost anything of significance?
From what I can tell, the only ones "losing" something here would be GNU losing a thing they can claim being made by them, a feather from their highly featured hat.
But my general impression is that GNU is already critically understaffed anyway, so it might actually do them some good, and avoid having dead-weight like this steal resources from their remaining projects.
Opinions?