is this project dead or alive?

To quote from the release notes of SmartPartner 1.2 RC:

"Since the cloning procedure of SmartPartner (and soon, of all SmartModules !) is so easy, we feel SmartClient does not really need a separate development. SmartClient always was a simple clone of SmartPartner to manage Clients, instead of Partners. Now you can do this yourself with the cloning script "