... it says 20200606, so what do you expect from a version two and a half year old...
Packaging wise, it would be useful to have a recent 4.x, so you may want to have a mail to the mentioned package manager from Debian / Ubuntu.
I'm quite sure that gnucobol3 will be updated shortly after it's next final release, which is coming in the next weeks.
If you want "most recent" then please go to download->nightly and grab a tarball, installing it from source, otherwise the gnucobol3 package it's fine.
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... ok, I've just had a look at that, the "added value" in this old version of GnuCOBOL4 is
*** this version has no backward compatibility to modules created with
a previous version; the internal library-number was therefore increased
(libcob-5 instead of libcob-4).
anything may still change during development of this version,
including incompatible changes
New GnuCOBOL features
** file handling: added backends for ODBC and OCI, along with new directory
COB_SCHEMA_DIR containing the necessary internal schema files to match the
indexed file definition to the database table
internal change: fileio splitted
As hinted before: no one should use that an old version of GnuCOBOL4, either go with 3.1.2 when distro-packaged, or with a recent gnucobol3 / gnucobol4 build from source. Recent GC4 has a much improved ODBC/OCI backend, performance improvement, delay-load of indexed fileio (screenio and xml/json pending, likely done before the firstGC4 preview release), improved compatibility to MicroFocus, completely rewritten dump on abend,. ...
There will be an official release of GnuCOBOL 4 starting with the first preview release (expected somewhere in the next 6 months); it is up to the distro packagers to create/add binary packages for that (but there are also -roughly tested- binaries from the nightly tarballs and binary packages from others) - with a minimal "more" dependencies you can always build from release (or nightly) tarballs with configure && make.
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Hi,
I just noticed that Ubuntu 22.04 offers gnucobol4 package:
What are the differences with 3.1 and 3.2?
Will be an official dist?
Regards!
That is an old version and like wise for gnucobol3.
I did download it and when I found out it was so old, deleted it and grabbed from SF.
Recommend you download from SF or Arnold's websites as well.
Vince
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... it says 20200606, so what do you expect from a version two and a half year old...
Packaging wise, it would be useful to have a recent 4.x, so you may want to have a mail to the mentioned package manager from Debian / Ubuntu.
I'm quite sure that gnucobol3 will be updated shortly after it's next final release, which is coming in the next weeks.
If you want "most recent" then please go to download->nightly and grab a tarball, installing it from source, otherwise the gnucobol3 package it's fine.
See the NEWS file.
Checking the file list of that package https://packages.debian.org/sid/amd64/gnucobol4/filelist there's only /usr/share/doc/gnucobol4/changelog - this may or may not be enough.
If it isn't: https://sourceforge.net/p/gnucobol/code/HEAD/tree/tags/gnucobol-3.2-rc1/NEWS and https://sourceforge.net/p/gnucobol/code/3459/tree/trunk/NEWS
... ok, I've just had a look at that, the "added value" in this old version of GnuCOBOL4 is
*** this version has no backward compatibility to modules created with
a previous version; the internal library-number was therefore increased
(libcob-5 instead of libcob-4).
anything may still change during development of this version,
including incompatible changes
** file handling: added backends for ODBC and OCI, along with new directory
COB_SCHEMA_DIR containing the necessary internal schema files to match the
indexed file definition to the database table
As hinted before: no one should use that an old version of GnuCOBOL4, either go with 3.1.2 when distro-packaged, or with a recent gnucobol3 / gnucobol4 build from source. Recent GC4 has a much improved ODBC/OCI backend, performance improvement, delay-load of indexed fileio (screenio and xml/json pending, likely done before the firstGC4 preview release), improved compatibility to MicroFocus, completely rewritten dump on abend,. ...
For nightly snapshots (=ready to use tarballs) og both gnucobol3 and gnucobol4 see https://sourceforge.net/projects/gnucobol/files/gnucobol/nightly_snapshots/
There will be an official release of GnuCOBOL 4 starting with the first preview release (expected somewhere in the next 6 months); it is up to the distro packagers to create/add binary packages for that (but there are also -roughly tested- binaries from the nightly tarballs and binary packages from others) - with a minimal "more" dependencies you can always build from release (or nightly) tarballs with
configure && make.