From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.2 (2011-06-06) on dcvr.yhbt.net X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-ASN: AS15169 209.85.128.0/17 X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.1 required=3.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,FREEMAIL_FROM, URIBL_BLOCKED shortcircuit=no autolearn=unavailable version=3.3.2 X-Original-To: unicorn-public@bogomips.org Received: from mail-oi0-f44.google.com (mail-oi0-f44.google.com [209.85.218.44]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by dcvr.yhbt.net (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 91CFA63382B for ; Fri, 26 Jun 2015 21:04:20 +0000 (UTC) Received: by oigb199 with SMTP id b199so83880002oig.3 for ; Fri, 26 Jun 2015 14:04:20 -0700 (PDT) X-Received: by 10.60.147.194 with SMTP id tm2mr3146117oeb.75.1435352659931; Fri, 26 Jun 2015 14:04:19 -0700 (PDT) MIME-Version: 1.0 Sender: brauliobo@gmail.com Received: by 10.202.87.76 with HTTP; Fri, 26 Jun 2015 14:03:40 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <20150626194627.GA12480@dcvr.yhbt.net> References: <20150626194627.GA12480@dcvr.yhbt.net> From: =?UTF-8?Q?Br=C3=A1ulio_Bhavamitra?= Date: Fri, 26 Jun 2015 18:03:40 -0300 X-Google-Sender-Auth: fe-YBJ6j7BsY5344EdTnhbPWLdU Message-ID: Subject: Re: TAN: Ragel now maintained by Colm networks To: Eric Wong Cc: unicorn-public Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable List-Id: Sad news to hear companies that don't understand free software taking maintainership of good free software :( Maybe the best would be to maintain a fork of it... cheers, br=C3=A1ulio On Fri, Jun 26, 2015 at 4:46 PM, Eric Wong wrote: > As most of you know, unicorn has always used Ragel for HTTP > parsing (inherited from Mongrel). > > For the most part, Ragel works great and does not need much > maintenance. I made some changes to work with the Ragel 5-to-6 > transition for Mongrel (pre-unicorn) and that was it. > > Since I mainly use Ragel from the Debian package nowadays, > I missed this bit of news when it was posted 2014-10-24. > > http://www.colm.net/ragel-now-maintained-by-colm-networks/ > > | As of October 2014, Ragel will be maintained by Colm Networks. > | This is a new consulting company founded by Dr. Adrian D. > | Thurston. > > (ed: Adrian Thurston is the original author of Ragel) > > | Since we cannot operate in the open, the git repository for > | Ragel will no longer be available. The project will be > | published as release (and pre-release) tarballs only. On the > | upside, Ragel will get much more attention. > > *Sigh* I guess we'll need to diff release tarballs from now on... > > I'm not very knowledgeable in C++, so any extra help auditing Ragel > changes would be greatly appreciated. > > | The license will remain the same: GPLv2 with an exception for > | the generated code derived from Ragel source. > > OK, at least that is good to hear. > > Fwiw, the ragel-users mailing list (where I lurked) closed in > July 2014, too. > > Anyways, I still love Ragel as a tool/language and have used it > in other projects. For now, it seems to work, but I'm hesitant > to start new projects using it. >