It probably comes as no surprise that I haven't had a lot of time to work on this project. My company, Intel, instituted rolling layoffs of about %12 of its workers. My department was eliminated. I am working at another, actually better, department now (mainly because I work on Linux Kernel development again!).
For that reason I am releasing 1.2, an intermediate version. It does not do everything, for example, it will not self compile and there are several rejection tests that need fixing. However, the new version is worlds ahead of the 1.0 release that was resident before, and that is what most people download, instead of getting the entire code base.
There are a lot of fixes. For an idea of what was fixed, as always, to go tickets and select "closed tickets". I am actually going through and closing tickets that were fixed by 1.2.
Please note that I have changed the way archived versioned projects are marked. The old system was ZIP and was marked as "P5". Now it useless the project name in sourceforge (abet with the hyphen in) as A "pascal-p5" (which is how N. Wirth named these versions). The new system uses the modern Linux .tar.gz format which is universal for Linux systems.
In any case, this is not the end of development on P5. We will be advancing the project in the near future.
thanks,
Scott Franco
Last edit: Scott Franco 2016-11-23
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Some recent progress in the iso-mode of the FreePascal compiler (fpc) made it possible to use fpc as bootstrap compiler for P5 on macOS. To ease its use, i also made a fink package description. The command 'fink install pascal-p5' is all you need to get P5 on macOS.
With fpc as bootstrap compiler, P5 can be built and installed on the wide range of platforms, for which fpc is available.
If you would like to refer to this comment somewhere else in this project, copy and paste the following link:
It probably comes as no surprise that I haven't had a lot of time to work on this project. My company, Intel, instituted rolling layoffs of about %12 of its workers. My department was eliminated. I am working at another, actually better, department now (mainly because I work on Linux Kernel development again!).
For that reason I am releasing 1.2, an intermediate version. It does not do everything, for example, it will not self compile and there are several rejection tests that need fixing. However, the new version is worlds ahead of the 1.0 release that was resident before, and that is what most people download, instead of getting the entire code base.
There are a lot of fixes. For an idea of what was fixed, as always, to go tickets and select "closed tickets". I am actually going through and closing tickets that were fixed by 1.2.
Please note that I have changed the way archived versioned projects are marked. The old system was ZIP and was marked as "P5". Now it useless the project name in sourceforge (abet with the hyphen in) as A "pascal-p5" (which is how N. Wirth named these versions). The new system uses the modern Linux .tar.gz format which is universal for Linux systems.
In any case, this is not the end of development on P5. We will be advancing the project in the near future.
thanks,
Scott Franco
Last edit: Scott Franco 2016-11-23
Some recent progress in the iso-mode of the FreePascal compiler (fpc) made it possible to use fpc as bootstrap compiler for P5 on macOS. To ease its use, i also made a fink package description. The command 'fink install pascal-p5' is all you need to get P5 on macOS.
With fpc as bootstrap compiler, P5 can be built and installed on the wide range of platforms, for which fpc is available.
That's good to hear (FPC runs Pascal-P5). I'll try to get some time to try it again.