Re: [Unicon-ldif] Status of feature requests on sourceforge

[Jeffery, C. (<jef...@ui...>]

Hi Bruce,

Unicon's HelpWanted page indeed needs periodic updating, and items should be removed that are no longer relevant due to the age of the feature/platform to which they apply.

As far as bug reports, in theory they get marked as Closed when they get fixed, and also in theory, they should remain there until they are fixed. One of the points of the tracker is to serve as a better institutional memory than the mailing list. In practice, the tracker can get neglected unless one or more folks make a point of working on its bugs.  I wired it to e-mail me when new bugs get posted, and I fix bugs when I can, which is to say, when they are easy and/or as my day job allows.

In general, I welcome suggestions on what to update/remove/close, and I welcome contributions that solve HelpWanted items or fix unsolved bugs. FYI I worked on your bug report from today, and seem to have a fix, with only a little bit of worry that it might break something else.

As far as translating the icont program into unicon, since the translator and linker were once separate programs, it should be easy to separate them and first do only one, and then the other.  I hear you about many optimizations being possible.
 
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From: Bruce & Breeanna Rennie <br...@dc...>
Sent: Wednesday, March 19, 2014 10:49 PM
Subject: Status of feature requests on sourceforge

I have being doing a quick run through of the feature requests on the
Unicon sourceforge site and have noticed that some of these requests go
back quite some time. My question is - are any of these requests due for
closure as no longer being relevant or are they still waiting for work
to be possibly done? I supposed the same can be asked about the bug
reports as well.

Just an update, I am currently working my way through the unicon and
icont source code to determine how best to merge both compilers. That is
how I came across the two bugs reported. I have noticed that the linker
code has sections that from my perspective will be quite easy to convert
to icon/unicon and as a result may mean possible areas where
optimisations can be done. I'll give you further update as I make
progress converting the c code to icon.