[Maf] Status

[Christopher Ottley]

Hello all,

First off, wish me a happy birthday (I'm getting older by the second, 
hurry up). Heh. At this point I'd like to thank everyone who has helped 
me with MAF whether they knew it or not including all the translators, 
the three people who donated stuff (hardware and dinero), those of you 
who submitted patches and scripts and everyone who takes the time to 
fill out the bug reports (arg, so many).
    Ok, with that out of the way, I bought a Mac Mini last week (doth 
no-one give discounts to open source developers anymore?) and although 
Xcode is a bit frustrating, I think I've figured out how to use it for 
C++ XPCOM component development. Basically the next Maf release *should* 
have full Mac support (cross your fingers and all that). I've managed to 
build Mozilla, a Gecko SDK for MacOS X and compile most of XPZip as a 
dynamically loadable BSD library. It seems to be complaining a bit about 
linking to some stuff I built, but I should fix that soon.
    MAF has code in it that caters for old Mozilla and Firefox browsers 
(from 0.8 to 0.10 to 1.0RC1) so due to time, energy and in the interest 
of preserving my sanity I'm only going to support the latest stable 
Firefox on each platform (x86 32-bit Linux, Win32 and MacOS X) and I'll 
also support the latest stable Mozilla if I have time. This should 
result in fewer bugs and a lot less headache (I am still only one person).
    Although you should still be able to get a version of MAF for any 
betas, nightly builds or release candidates of Mozilla or Firefox from 
CVS I will no longer be releasing builds that are for those versions.  
    Lastly, I'm thinking about changing the browse open archives 
interface to be more "Bookmark"-like. Once I get speed, stability and 
compatibility issues fixed in the 0.6.x series, that's the next major 
thing on my agenda (which should herald the 0.7.x series).
    As always, comments welcome.

Regards,
Christopher.