#OSSP software archive and upstream continuation

The OSSP meta-project, headed by Ralf S. Engelschall, produced many software products between 1999-03-28 and 2009-06-25, many with archival value, and a few still found on modern systems and referenced by modern implementations.

Since 2008, development is halted, while the mound of progress builds and crushes:

• the http://www.ossp.org site still functions satisfactorily,
• the ftp://ftp.ossp.org site does not (third link),
• the http://cvs.ossp.org site — containing the bug tracker — is a grave-yard of bug reports created as recently as 2023-10-13 (at time of writing – 2024-09-07).

In a way, the OSSP project has failed, and its vision of the Next Generation Internet Server Platform product was never realised.

In many other ways, the OSSP project has succeeded, contemporaneously being the source of many critical programs and libraries for the first, tumultuous, decade of the 21^st century, which were only later followed and superseded by international standards, and remain still a part of this next generation of the Universal Operating System.

I thank rse, thl, &a. for their work so far, and wish continued success for their OpenPKG product.
Henceforth this the upstream site for all OSSP software. Use the buttons at the top of this page to navigate its constituent parts.

#Archival status

Raw archives are retained here. See the INDEX for more information.

When archived — in the few days following 2024-09-03 — the upstream OSSP site consisted of:

1. a http://www.ossp.org web site — this archive is an accurate rendition; it was also under version control
2. an ftp://ftp.ossp.org FTP site – mirrored by rsync

• this includes both package tarballs (pkg/) and
• mailing list archives (mail/ – though I can't really find these referenced anywhere, ever):
  • ossp-announce@ossp.org – entirely empty (file date 2000-05-31)
  • ossp-users@ossp.org – 4 messages from 2001-01-19, all spam
  • ossp-dev@ossp.org – 31 messages from between 2002-05-23 and 2004-03-09, then 98 almost-identical automated messages from between 2007-10-18 and 2012-01-29
  • ossp-cvs@ossp.org – 5093 messages from between 2000-06-13 and 2009-11-23

1. a http://cvs.ossp.org CVSTrac front-end

• the 55 CVS repositories were saved by the rsync
  • following mirabilos' recommendation, his cvs2git methodology was used to turn these into git archives (for specifics see mirror INDEX); this is believed to be the the highest-quality CVS import available, and appears to have correctly imported every aspect of every repository
  • the specific infelicities that befall CVS and cannot be represented by git are also rendered by CVSTrac; those were saved by web scrape (cf. INDEX).
• there is no wiki
• there is a bug-tracker — archived directly; imported into https://todo.sr.ht/~nabijaczleweli/ossp
  • there are 145 non-spam bug reports, numbered [4, 207]; it's unclear where the 62 missing numbers went (so post if you know!)
  • the upstream bug tracker has been notified in Ticket 209. Hopefully this properly funnels new issues here.

#CVS Repositories

There are 55, most of which have only archival value, and are thus frozen in time. For some, upstream development continues herein – those have been thawed. More may be thawed if demand materialises.
Partitioned by freeze state, sorted by last update from the original upstream.