Re: [Cobolforgcc-devel] Is there anyone out there?

[Tim J. <te...@me...>]

Bernard Giroud wrote:
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> Chris Marshall a =E9crit :
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> > Hi. I just wanted to find out what was going on with this project, if=
 it
> > was still alive or not. Most of the information I've found on the web=
 is
> > about a year old.
> >
> > Thanks!
> >
> > Chris
> >
> >
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> If you browse the CVS directory, you will find that Tim (Josling) is
> working hard. But COBOL is a huge and tricky language, so
> there's a lot to do.
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> But I agree that it is frustrating for people to see no progress.
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> Tim, would it be possible to release a tarball from time to time,
> and to advertise them in comp.lang.cobol ?
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> Bernard Giroud
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As Bernard said, I am working hard on it. However it is not quite useful =
yet
so no announcements...

As it turns out version 0.5 is "code complete". This constitutes enough o=
f the
language to be usable in writing the runtime routines.

I am working on the documentation including web page updates, and an RPM
package for Red Hat Linux. I hope that will be ready soon and I will anno=
unce
it in comp.lang.cobol.

One of the issues with being an add-on to GCC is that it is not a simple
matter of releasing a tarball. If people want to compile it themselves th=
ey
need to install the GCC source and then add cobol4gcc to that which is
complex.

Tim Josling