Re: MINIX fs translator - new alpha release

[Marco Gerards]

"Roberto Reale" <rreale@iol.it> writes:

> On Thu, Dec 25, 2003 at 10:43:50PM +0100, Marco Gerards wrote:
> 
> > Did you manage to fix those bugs you spoke about and are you still
> > interested in making this translator to work properly?
> 
>   To be sure I am interested in making my translator work properly!
> Indeed, I have been working at a new revision, which is now
> half-finished.  Several bugs have been fixed, but I have not done very
> much testing, so others are likely to have escaped my search.
> However, the translator does appear to work.

Good!  I'm looking forward to the release.

>   Regrettably, during the last four or five weeks I have been fairly
> busy, so my ``development pace'' has slackened somewhat.  Anyway, the
> new revision should be ready in a month or so.

Nice.

> > Unfortunately I'm quite busy at the moment.  I can have a look at your
> > code in a about a month.  If one of the Hurd maintainers wants to
> > include minixfs in the Hurd I can help with this.
> > 
> > I also wrote an (unreleased, unfinished) minixfs implementation, we
> > can have a look which one of these two is the best and use that.
> 
>   I should be glad to have your opinion and advice.  If you deem it
> expedient, we might pick up from our implementations the best ideas
> and merge them together, thus making the most of both your work and
> mine.

I will have a look at your code when you release it.  I won't have
time next month, but you said it will take a month anyway.

>   Thank you very much for your interest in my work.

Thank you for doing this work!

--
Marco