RE: [Tiny-cobol-users] Introduction and call for ideas

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I don't think there is any project that it too small for SourceForge.
Besides, what better way to gain exposure and input?

If you are limiting this to a cgi interface, then you're right about GNUe
being less than useful.

I suspect the relevant thing for me would be a simple interface to access
the data string.  Since I have yet to do any CGI work, I could not make any
more specific comment.

Good Luck.

-----Original Message-----
From: Wim Niemans [mailto:ni...@pb...]
Sent: Friday, September 13, 2002 4:56 AM
To: Boris Kortiak
Subject: RE: [Tiny-cobol-users] Introduction and call for ideas


> Have you checked what is available at http://sourceforge.net yet?  Not
only
> are there a variety of open source projects going on, but it seems to be
an
> excellent tool for managing projects and keeping a repository of project
> information.  This is what TinyCOBOL uses.  

I think this project is too tiny for sourceforge. Maybe later, when a
roadmap is 
clear, and some things are coded already.

> You may want to also check out the gnue project at http://www.gnue.org to
> see what has already been done with respect to warehouse management and
> other enterprise software.  You may find some useful stuff, although it
will
> not be written in COBOL.

Well, I intend to build a cgi interface completely written in Cobol.
Though there is a xml parser there, written in cobol.

> Good luck and keep us informed about your project.

First of all, I will need some input to decide what is relevant to cobol 
programmers. I do not intend to write an interface for all that legacy code
out 
there. But the idea to have cobol as a cgi-option tickles me.
After all, a runtime cobol program has a much less footprint than perl, php
or 
other popular scripting languages.

Cheers,
wim niemans