New features with AN-2023-09-28:
With great sadness we report the death of schilytools main author and
long time maintainer Jörg Schilling (1955-03-27--2021-10-10). Jörg, we
miss you! After his passing, development has been picked up by a group
of volunteers who would like to keep the project alive and well. Our
goal is to carefully preserve the portability and compatibility of this
project while extending it to new platforms and implementing new tools
and features that fit the tool set.
As a part of the change in management, the schilytools project has moved
from Sourceforge to Codeberg. Please report bugs and send patches to
our bug tracker:
https://codeberg.org/schilytools/schilytools
or to our mailing list schilytools@mlists.in-berlin.de:
https://mlists.in-berlin.de/mailman/listinfo/schilytools-mlists.in-berlin.de
Obtain release tarballs from:
http://fuz.su/pub/schilytools
ftp://fuz.su/pub/schilytools
rsync://fuz.su/pub/schilytools
https://schilytools.pkgsrc.pub/pub/schilytools/
http://schilytools.pkgsrc.pub/pub/schilytools/
https://mirrors.dotsrc.org/schilytools/
http://mirrors.dotsrc.org/schilytools/
ftp://mirrors.dotsrc.org/schilytools/
rsync://mirrors.dotsrc.org/schilytools/
https://ftp.halifax.rwth-aachen.de/schilytools/
http://ftp.halifax.rwth-aachen.de/schilytools/
ftp://ftp.halifax.rwth-aachen.de/schilytools/
rsync://ftp.halifax.rwth-aachen.de/schilytools/
https://ftp.gwdg.de/pub/misc/schilytools/
http://ftp.gwdg.de/pub/misc/schilytools/
ftp://ftp.gwdg.de/pub/misc/schilytools/
rsync://ftp.gwdg.de/schilytools/
If you have previously reported bugs to Jörg Schilling and they have not
been fixed, please report them again. We do not have access to Jörg's
private emails and do not know what you have reported.
NEW FEATURES:
- autoconf: Fix machine recognition on POWER9 (ppc64le) systems.
When buidling schilytools on ppc64le systems, config.sub was
unable to determine the machine type on some systems. This also
broke the version announcement on some of the commands. Fix this
error by teaching autoconf about ppc64le.
Submitted by: Nico Sonack.
- mkisofs: adjust reference of ISO-9660:1999 to ISO-9660/Amd 1:2013
It is an official ISO standard (albeit not an official level 4)
since 2013. Amend the reference accordingly.
Submitted by: Wang Mingye.
- libschily: obey HAVE_LONGDOUBLE, HAVE_FACCESSAT, and
HAVE_GETDOMAINNAME in libschily-mapvers, fixing the build with
lld 17 on recent FreeBSD.
Submitted by: Dimitry Andric.
FUTURE DIRECTIONS:
- Schilytools contains pxupgrade, a dummy for a closed-source
component. While the source code of this component is available
to the maintainer, it cannot be published due to an existing NDA
with Plextor. Depending on whether we can get this NDA lifted
or not, the pxupgrade dummy code may either be replaced with the
real source code of the tool or removed altogether.
- With development of the p7zip(1) utility having ceased in 2016
and the 7-zip project having ported the reference implementation
to UNIX-like systems, many packagers now ship a 7z(1) command
instead of p7zip(1). Future star distributions may ship an
/etc/default/star file configuring P7ZIP_CMD to refer to 7z(1)
instead of the default p7zip(1). This will not affect existing
installations unless the configuration is updated.
- Configuring compression/decompression helpers may be implemented
for DOS (DJGPP) in an upcoming version.
CONTRIBUTORS FOR THIS VERSION:
Dimitry ANDRIC <dim@FreeBSD.org>
Nico SONACK <nsonack@herrhotzenplotz.de>
WANG Mingye (Artoria2e5) <arthur2e5@aosc.io>
The schilytools maintainer
Robert Clausecker <fuz@fuz.su>
clausecker released this