Hi, Gaudenz. On Aug 07 2007, Gaudenz Steinlin wrote: > The Mac-On-Linux packages are formally team maintained, but actually > I'm the only active maintainer and my time is quite limited.
I am in the New Maintainer's queue and I have an iBook G3 which is currently running a mix of Ubuntu and Debian, but I plan on sticking to Debian in the near future. I would like to help with the port of PowerPC, as it seems that this platform is not receiving the deserved love by Ubuntu and it it seems that MacOS X 10.5 (the next release) will not run on computers with a G3 processor, unfortunately. :-( > This is why it took quite long to prepare the long overdue update to > support the latest kernels. I would be glad to welcome some more > members to the pkg-mol team. Do you have some easy tasks that could be accomplished by a re-newcomer to the PowerPC platform (I say re-newcomer because I used to be moderately regular in debian-powerpc, but life has changed drastically in the past few years), just to get my feet wet again? > The packages are maintained in the alioth repository on > http://svn.debian.org/wsvn/pkg-mol Nice. > Source tarballs (repackaged and original) are available from > http://pkg-mol.alioth.debian.org/ Ok. This is also nice to know. > If you need help or have further questions, feel free to ask on > [EMAIL PROTECTED] Just for your information, I used to have success with MoL during the 2.4 era, when BenH tree was *the* tree to use to have your system working with Linux. It's been a long time. > This is a small TODO list from the top of my head: > - check configure options we could activate (especially pci-proxy > support and debugger support) I don't know exactly what is meant by the pci-proxy support. > - better support for running linux inside mol (probably this is > currently broken, guest side drivers are not packaged for debian, > sources are in the old mol bk archive, snapshot at > http://pkg-mol.alioth.debian.org/bk_checkouts/bk_checkouts.tar.bz2) Running MacOS X 10.3 (or was it 10.2) with iTunes was doable, but I never tried playing with running MacOS 9 nor with Linux inside MoL. It would be a nice thing to try, though. > - fix building mol twice in a row (double compilation support release > goal!) Depending on the package structure, it can be easier. Is Samuel still upstream for MoL or has the debian-mol-team taken the duty of having it upstream? What kind of patch system is being used? I'm familiar with quilt, but not with dpatch (not that I couldn't learn, guess or pester with some questions about it). :-) > - check and possibly package new gui frontend (svn module mol-gui at > mac-on-linux.sf.net) I went to the site and skimmed through, but I didn't see anything regarding a GUI. What is meant as a gui for MoL? Wouldn't it run anymore in a Window or in a separate console? > - write missing manpage for mol-img > - ... Ok. Thanks for taking care of MoL, Rogério Brito. -- Rogério Brito : [EMAIL PROTECTED],ime.usp}.br : GPG key 1024D/7C2CAEB8 http://www.ime.usp.br/~rbrito : http://meusite.mackenzie.com.br/rbrito Projects: algorithms.berlios.de : lame.sf.net : vrms.alioth.debian.org
