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mgorbach
Time to find a new maintainer?
Noticed that this project has been stale for years and has many bugs on newer OSXes. If there are no plans to maintain it, perhaps it's time to find new committers or make it clear that another fork such as this one is now the official one?
Hello, @mgorbach here. I have indeed been very busy with other work and really haven't had time to maintain or update Macfusion. As it looks like it still has a following, you bring up a valid point. I'm disappointed that I haven't been able to do more for the project, and I would be willing to hand it over to a qualified new maintainer.
If anyone is interested, especially anyone who is a maintainer of one of the existing active github forks, please feel free to drop me an email at michael+macfusion at mgorbach dot name.
Did anything come of this? Has another fork been more recently updated? The one linked in the OP hasn't been updated for two years. I'm trying to find a stable solution for OSX 10.9.
@mgorbach Could you please edit the website so new visitors with recent versions of OSX don't bother downloading this obsolete software.
Well, the osxfuse documentation even has instructions on how to use this "obsolete software" with the new fuse implementation. So it seems to still work fine - actively finding a maintainer and/or pointing to a recent fork might be better than turning people away.
Right now new people will download the out-of-date software, will recognise that it does not work and will turn away frustrated. The text on the website suggestes that macfusion works right out of the box, without installing any other software. That is just wrong.
If using this "new fuse implementation" helps, maybe that should be mentioned somewhere on the website?
MacFusion works fine for me on OSX Mavericks, although the instructions on the website are indeed incorrect. To get it to work, installing osxfuse and fixing a symlink as described here does the trick. I agree with @0xErnie though that the website should be updated accordingly.
This seems like one of those cases where a commercial vendor picks up the torch and keeps it lit just because it's a pretty useful and essential tool for many. Like WanDisco seems to be doing with subversion.
