SWI Prolog is gone from F13 and F14

Paul Howarth paul at city-fan.org
Thu Nov 11 21:49:10 UTC 2010


On Thu, 11 Nov 2010 16:34:29 +0000 (UTC)
Michel Alexandre Salim <salimma at fedoraproject.org> wrote:

> On Tue, 09 Nov 2010 18:14:42 +0000, Joel wrote:
> 
> > Is anyone interested in resurrecting SWI Prolog?  I just noticed
> > that it was dropped from F13 and F14.
> > 
> > The version in F12 was 5.7.11, the current version is 5.10.2
> > according to: http://www.swi-prolog.org/
> > 
> > The previous packager was Gerard Milmeister.
> 
> Gérard has not been heard of in quite a while; I've just started a
> non- responsive process on him a few days ago:
> 
> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=612094
> 
> Those of us who are maintaining his packages in the meantime should 
> probably try to contact him too. We might need a mass-orphaning if
> Gérard cannot continue his Fedora work anymore.

Gérard already said he was amenable to other people taking over his
packages:

http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/devel/2010-July/138375.html

Paul.


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