[Fwd: Re: [Fwd: RE: [Freegis-list] predator ordbms]]

[John Reid]

Hi all,

Hope this explains what is going on.  As I understand it, development 
has just started again after a hiatus, so the Predator guys are still 
getting organised.  From a email exchange about a month ago:

Philippe Bonnet wrote:
I have just moved to U.Copenhagen and I am resuming work on Predator. The
last months at Cornell had been quite on that front. I am in the process of
recruiting a student and hope to be done with the port to Linux in a month
or so (proper packaging might take longer but I could ship a version as
soon as we are done).

cheers,
John

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Hi,

We are going to release a Linux version of Predator in a few weeks. We 
might establish an open source project in the mid term. To start
with, the model I have in mind is that people can start developing 
extensions on their own (with our support) and we (in Copenhagen)
will integrate them into releases. It really all depends on the number 
of people that get involved. But it has always been our purpose
(Jim Gray supported the project until last year and that was very clear 
for him) to make Predator an open source effort. We just have to
find the right way to do it.

Best,
Philippe.


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