On Monday 24 January 2005 16:38, Chris Adams wrote: > Once upon a time, Gene C. <czar@xxxxxxxxx> said: > > I propose that a2ps and its associated psutils is orphaned ... there has > > been no activity by the originator/maintainer since 2000. The associated > > mailing list has had little traffic other than spam in years. > > What activity is needed for psutils? I have been using psutils for > years; I was glad to see it added to RHL back whenever that was. Just > because something hasn't changed in a while doesn't mean it should be > dropped; AFAIK there is no other utility that does what psutils does. psutils is not a problem ... it is a2ps which needs some work (mainly locale support). > > Just because something hasn't changed doesn't mean it should be dropped > or moved to Extras. Dropped ... NO! Moved to Extras, maybe. > > > HOWEVER, I would also propose keeping it in Core since it serves a very > > useful basic function of pretty-printing many forms of source code files. > > As for a2ps, we also have GNU enscript (which does more I believe), so > a2ps could move to Extras. I had not looked at enscript and it does do some of the language support stuff that a2ps does. I like a2ps better but that is a personal preference. -- Gene
