Re: Presto: what happened to it?

[Jeremy Katz <katzj redhat com>]

On Tue, 2007-07-17 at 18:03 +0200, nodata wrote:
> A while back there was a conversation about including Presto in F7.
> The request was rejected due to lack of testing.
> 
> A few months on, and the loss of the Presto repo later, there doesn't
> seem to be an awful lot of testing by users.
> 
> Is this a bandwidth problem? Can the Fedora Project host it to fix this?

There's actually work underway to get to where we can enable presto by
default.  Jonathan took a number of patches from me to clean things up a
bit and those are present in the most recent presto release (0.4.0).
Also, there's some work starting to get underway to add the support
within the buildsystem for deltarpm generation.  This will make it
possible for us to create and distribute them natively as part of the
distro/update build process.

So the short answer is, we're working on it and it's currently being
tracked as a proposed feature for Fedora 8[1]

Jeremy

[1] http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Releases/FeaturePresto