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diff --git a/Hurd/GNUHurdStatus.mdwn b/Hurd/GNUHurdStatus.mdwn index 305b99fa..8bc348ff 100644 --- a/Hurd/GNUHurdStatus.mdwn +++ b/Hurd/GNUHurdStatus.mdwn @@ -1,127 +1,15 @@ -Unfortunately, this page is very outdated. For the latest status you need to check the [[MailLists]] or [[HurdIRC]]. I know that from hanging out on IRC today (Feb 29, 2004) Marcus was uploading a new [[Mach]] binary package to update the old one in the debian archive. Work still continues on the new [[HurdConsole]]. Progress overall is slow due to the technical expertise required for many tasks and the lack of resources. - --- [[Main/GrantBow]] - 01 Mar 2004 - -Two canonical status lists are available from the CVS archive: - -* [TODO file](http://savannah.gnu.org/cgi-bin/viewcvs/~checkout~/hurd/hurd/TODO?rev=HEAD&content-type=text/plain) - from Hurd repository -* [Task file](http://savannah.gnu.org/cgi-bin/viewcvs/~checkout~/hurd/hurd/tasks?rev=HEAD&content-type=text/plain) - from Hurd respository - -<dl> - <dt><a href="http://lists.debian.org/debian-hurd/2002/debian-hurd-200210/msg00035.html" target="_top">Welcome Note</a></dt> - <dd> Introduction to GNU and the Hurd sent monthly to <nop>Help-Hurd@gnu.org. </nop></dd> -</dl> - -<div align="right"> Related: [[KnownHurdLimits]], <br />[[SeenHurd]], [[WhoRunsGNU]], [[GnuHurdLiveJournal]]</div> - ----- - -Here are some notes taken from an [IRC discussion](http://web.walfield.org/~hird/%23hurd-200209027) September 28th, 2002. The part of the log at which I am summarizing starts with - -`<marcus@18:26> wolfgang: I once made a list of things that are definitely to be done before a release. want me to write it here? (It's only on paper so far)` - -This list is intended to apply to "just the CVS of the [Hurd itself](http://savannah.gnu.org/projects/hurd)." It is specifically not intended to apply to GNU/Hurd and definately not Debian GNU/Hurd. - -**FIXME.** How out-of-date is this stuff? -- [[Main/DeviceRandom]] - 20 Jan 2007 - -* xkb driver for console (for international users) -* kbd leds in console (well, in general, Roland's new driver in oskit for that crap) -* fixing fakeroot (it's buggy) -* fixing tmpfs (it's buggy, Neal says it's Mach's fault) -* adding posix shared memory (requires the io\_close call to be implemented) -* adding posix file locking (requires the io\_close call to be implemented) -* testing - * find + various filesystems (are inode numbers for . and .. sane?) - * ext2fs with other block sizes than 4096 - * --help and --version and --usage in all programs - * I have seen ^V in some --help output, might be argp bug - * Verify that all options are documented clearly, and that no unimplemented options appear - * Is the short and long description in the help output correct? - * Is the return value of all programs correct (eg, does main() return a sane value) - * Is the suid bit correctly set for all installed programs? - * Translators - * Does settrans -g work? -fg? - * Does fsysopts work? Does setting options with fsysopts work? - * Does stat() work on all translated nodes and give proper data? - * What about chown, chmod (some translators should pass this through to the underlying node, esp in /dev!) - * Does statfs give correct data? - * Are all inode numbers and link counts correct? -* [one unreadable item on the paper] -* We also should have a "make check" test suite. We can add this once Jeff finished his automake patches -* pick up the other things - * pthread, definitely. Now that we are so close - * new console is basically done - * needs integration of course - * X switching support -* there is certainly more to do ... - --- - -This is the wrong place for this but I'll put it here for now. Here's an [email about pthreads direction](http://mail.gnu.org/pipermail/hurd-devel/2002q3/000449.html) from hurd-devel mail list. - --- [[Main/GrantBow]] - 01 Oct 2002 - -Wolfgang also created a wonderful list of [Easy tasks](http://mail.gnu.org/pipermail/help-hurd/2002-July/006413.html) on July 28, 2002 that I will quote here: - -<table border="1" cellpadding="1" cellspacing="0"> - <tr> - <th bgcolor="#99CCCC"><strong>Difficulty</strong></th> - <th bgcolor="#99CCCC"><strong>Task</strong></th> - </tr> - <tr> - <td> 0 </td> - <td> Check if all programs handle options (at least --help, --version and --usage; don't forget about the shell scripts) </td> - </tr> - <tr> - <td> 1 </td> - <td> Check if all translators handle fsysopts </td> - </tr> - <tr> - <td> 1 </td> - <td> Check if all translators respond to "settrans -g" </td> - </tr> - <tr> - <td> 1 </td> - <td> More tests of this kind </td> - </tr> - <tr> - <td> 2 </td> - <td> Fix those of the above who don't work as intended </td> - </tr> - <tr> - <td> 2 </td> - <td> Document (in doc/hurd.texi) all undocumented programs (translators as well as programs in utils/ and sutils/ and some others) </td> - </tr> - <tr> - <td> 1 </td> - <td> Find a POSIX test suite, run it on GNU/Hurd, report the results </td> - </tr> - <tr> - <td> 1 </td> - <td> Find more useful test suites to run </td> - </tr> - <tr> - <td> 3 </td> - <td> Update INSTALL-cross </td> - </tr> - <tr> - <td> 2 </td> - <td> Check if all the store classes in libstore work (we have many of them, look into the Makefile) </td> - </tr> - <tr> - <td> 4 </td> - <td> Fix those who don't work </td> - </tr> - <tr> - <td> 2 </td> - <td> Document all still undocumented store classes </td> - </tr> - <tr> - <td> 2 </td> - <td> The console is pretty new code, it told me it wants to get tested </td> - </tr> -</table> - -Where difficulty 0 means trivial and 4 means tricky; the difficulty has nothing to do with the importance. - --- [[Main/GrantBow]] - 11 Oct 2002 +The last official release of the Hurd was 0.2. An +eminent release is not planned. There are a number of +reasons for this. + +One is that the Hurd is not sufficently stable or feature +complete. If an official release of the Hurd were made +now, people would try the Hurd and be disappointed. People +already expect delays; to disappoint them in this way as +well would be unfortunate. Moreover, it lessens the +possibility that they will try the Hurd again in the future. + +Another reason is that, Debian provides a distribution that +closely tracks Hurd development (and often includes many +new features). Little is to be gained by making an official +release.
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