On 2011/02/17 09:02, Frank Shearar wrote:
> On 2011/02/15 21:23, Colin Putney wrote:
>> On Tue, Feb 15, 2011 at 10:44 AM, Casey Ransberger
>> <casey.obrien.r at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> Whatever happened to MC2 anyway? We currently use a fork of MC, no?
>>> In the longer term, does MC2 make more sense? Can we merge the
>>> changes from Trunk (e.g. atomic loading) into MC2? How much work
>>> would that be?
>>>
>>> I regularly hear people asking for feature x and see replies to the
>>> effect "MC2 does that." So it seems like it meets some wants, if not
>>> needs. Are there objections to MC2, is MC2 just not well baked, or is
>>> it just a lot of work that no one is excited about doing?
>>>
>>> If the problem is the latter, maybe someone who knows a bit about MC
>>> with a spot of time should ask ESUG for a grant.
>>>
>>> I tried doing a port of MC from trunk to Cuis one night, and I
>>> learned two things:
>>>
>>> - MC is complex (I expected this)
>>> - I don't understand MC well enough to port it yet. Got the UI and
>>> networking going but that was as far as I could go without hitting
>>> the low limit of my understanding
>>
>> Bert's right. MC2 is a rethink, applying what we've learned from MC1
>> to a ground-up rewrite.
>>
>> The current release of MC2 is stable and usable, but it has some
>> workflow issues that make it impractical for projects with a lot of
>> contributors. The bleeding-edge version of MC2 solves these issues (I
>> think), but it's incomplete and unusable.
>>
>> MC2 doesn't move forward very fast because 1) MC1 is good enough for
>> the most part and 2) the folks that contribute don't have a lot of
>> spare time. It *is* moving forward, though, and I expect we'll get to
>> a solid, usable release eventually.
>
> In case you're trying to find MC2, it looks like the new/latest home is
> here: http://source.wiresong.ca/mc

That's the repository itself. I found the definitive Download Place - 
http://www.wiresong.ca/downloads - buried in the Getting Started part of 
the documentation (who reads that?!) at 
http://www.wiresong.ca/monticello/v2/docs, which is itself readily 
googleable.

frank