nagler@olsen.UUCP (Rob Nagler) (03/17/91)
[Before sending me e-mail, please read the whole message.] dwa@sdcc14.ucsd.edu (Don Anderson) writes: > Also welcome would be any information > on the status of the rumored GNU Modula-2 compiler. O&A is supporting the implementation of GNU M2. The work is being done at SUNY Buffalo. They are pretty busy people, but the work is progressing. Expect to hear something by the end of '91 (as always, maybe sooner). We read this list regularly, so don't worry, we'll put a message here as soon as it is ready for Beta. nicolas@csi.forth.gr (Nicolas Chrissakis) writes: > I am looking for libraries which would enable me to write code > in MSDOS and UNIX operating systems. In 1988, we distributed a freeware library called YAML. As far as we are concerned, this is what will be distributed with GNU M2. We use the library intensively and have expanded it on an as needed basis. YAML runs on DECSta/Ultrix (Mocka, GPM, Powell), Sun/SPARC/68K (Sun M2), and PC/DOS (Logitech 3.0). warwick@cs.uq.oz.au (Warwick Allison) writes: > I am searching for Modula-2 interfaces/bindings to the X windows > libraries (Xlib and the Xt toolkit intrinsics). > Are they available (ftp, etc.) ? We use X windows on DEC and Suns (B&W and Color). With the Sep88 YAML distribution, we distribute a bunch of X defmods that we used back in 1988 (X11R3). We are using X11R4 now and these are of course available to all who want them. The matter is how. We have been distributing the Sep88 version of YAML on floppies & tape via physical mail for quite some time. We have received basically no feedback so we haven't put any effort into doing another release. We also haven't had many requests for the library in the last year. All the bugs (except one) were found by us in our daily use and incorporated into our copy, not the release. It takes time for us to make a release, because we have to extract YAML out of our unique (peculiar? esoteric?) software development environment. I'll be very happy to run "tar cf /dev/rst0 /o/portlib" and mail it to people (for a small handling fee). PC users would have to settle for zoo files on N floppies (don't ask me what N is I don't know). You would have to do some work to get it to compile. We also have many C header files transliterated to M2. I could update the YAML Sep88 directory structure, but this is a non-trivial amount of work. I won't do this if only one person wants it. I'm not even sure if I'll do this if 200 people ask for it. In other words, send me e-mail and I'll think about it. There are 100 modules and some have different implementations (i.e. same file name, but different directories). We also have a preprocessor which supports "cpp"-like conditional compilation and use it throughout the library to aid portability. We aren't on Fido, FTP, or another net. If someone out there has a few MB of disk space, they are certainly welcome to distribute the library. I've included our standard YAML blurb for those who want a better description of the library. Rob nagler@olsen.ch ------------------------------------------------- Synopsis The library's foremost feature is its portability. Applications which use the library should be portable (usually w/o modification) and the library definition and current implementation should easily port to other systems. The library was originally centered around I/O, but has been expanded to include those facilities which we found were required for Modula-2 application programming in general. The following is a short list of features. Put the word "portable" in front of all items. o Binary (Direct) I/O o Text I/O o Program Arguments o Program Environment Variables o Program Error Handling o Centralized Redirectable Error Output o Memory Management o Light-weight Processes (Tasks) o Low Level Memory Ops o CRC Computation o Pseudo-Random Numbers o String Manipulation and Conversions o Debugging Support o Terminal (Screen) Oriented I/O o Generic List Facilities o Modula-2 Source Preprocessor o Config File Parsing o I/O Name Management o Directory I/O Facilities o Flexible Formatted I/O o Useful Types & Constants Window systems, network communications, graphics, and time/date modules were not included, because they are less portable than the facilities listed above. 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