nspluginwrapper (was: Re: Wow... (<-- blown away at performance))

[Benjamin Kaduk]

On Thu, 31 Mar 2011, Benjamin Kaduk wrote:

> On Thu, 31 Mar 2011, Jung-uk Kim wrote:
>
>> On Thursday 31 March 2011 02:27 pm, Alexander Best wrote:
>>> 
>>> i just noticed the WWW links in pkg-descr of boths nspluginwrapper
>>> and nspluginwrapper-devel are broken. i believe [1] is the current
>>> location.
>>> 
>>> cheers.
>>> alex
>>> 
>>> [1] https://github.com/davidben/nspluginwrapper
>> 
>> No, this is actually a fork.  The original author disappeared and this
>> guy picked it up from the last snapshot release.  Please note there
>> was no official release from this tree yet.  If this guy actually
>> produces something useful, www/nspluginwrapper-devel may switch
>> later, of course.
>
> Yes, this is a fork, but he is serious about cleaning up the code and is 
> planning to become the new upstream.  He was actually just in the office here 
> this afternoon commenting how introducing a feature to configure that causes 
> unknown options to be errors would cause most distros' packaging to break.
> Please do continue to follow it, as I expect it will come to fruition.

Replying to this old thread, David tells me he has rolled a release, and 
has gained the old maintainer's blessing:
http://www.redhat.com/archives/nspluginwrapper-devel-list/2011-April/msg00006.html
http://www.redhat.com/archives/nspluginwrapper-devel-list/2011-April/msg00003.html

-Ben Kaduk