Ben wrote:

All that I know about it is that it was founded by Tom Lord, and I have seen far too much of his utopian fantasies on the free software business list. Judging from his behaviour there I conclude that as long as he is involved it will likely be long on goals, short on actual work, and I won't want to trust the responsiveness of the core developer(s).

He's severely flaky, all right. For good or for bad (short-term bad, long-term good, in my view), he also has completely bowed out of Arch development, and closed his site completely. This has lead in the short term to disorganisation among remaining developers, and there seem to be two successor sites that may either result in forking or not. (I don't know much about that.) The other problem is that the current implementation depends on some shell scripts, rendering it difficult to be fully cross-platform. (Should be redone in Perl.)

Rick Moen
rick@linuxmafia.com