[schilytools] Anybody out there?

[Dennis Clarke]

On 5/14/22 08:22, Robert Clausecker wrote:
> Hi there,
> 
> I'm sorry for not giving a status update earlier.
> 
> The situation is as follows: We finished cleaning out his apartment
> last month and are now in the process of sorting through the data
> he has left.  Unfortunately we have yet to find the version control
> files of the schilytools, preventing us from setting up a new
> project properly.
> 
> I originally wanted to wait until these files were obtained so I
> could have the project with all the history, but it seems like it
> could take a lot longer until we find these version control files.
> Jörg left a lot of data and he was quite paranoid about his version
> control files ever since a company stole his DVD burning code for a
> commercial product, so it might be hidden in some way we have not
> figured out yet.
> 
> On the other hand, it seems like there is significant interest in
> continuing development on the code base, so I think I'll go ahead
> and set up something temporary the next days.  It has been long
> enough already.
> 
> Yours,
> Robert Clausecker
Other people have already begun to move forward. At the very least the
BLAKE2s and BLAKE2b hash algorithms were implemented into mdigest. The
entire make system however is truely "special".

     https://gitlab.com/herrhotzenplotz/schilytools.git

Personally I am motivated to rescue the sources also and I don't really
care where they land but please not on damn github. Sourcehut would be
far far better. There have even been live streams about working on the
code.

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Dennis Clarke
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