gaspar@st-louis-emh2.army.mil (Al Gaspar) (03/27/89)
Ozan Yigit has done a great job in getting the Berkeley/Sun version of indent into the public domain. I have a question, though. Some time ago I posted a message asking whether there was a PD version of indent that supported three styles of brace placement as well as all of the Berkeley options. (That caused an ungodly amount of traffic about style. I am not and will not advocate any particular style of brace placement.) Anyway, the gist of the replies I received was that at least two people were working on producing one version of indent incorporating what was in the public domain, what was in the Berkeley version, and what was in the Sun version. I noticed that the -bg, -dj, -ndf, -pb, and -npb options from the older public domain version are missing from Oz's version of indent posted to unix-sources. What I would like to know is if there is someone else still working on indent that plans on incorporating the older public domain version into Oz's Berkeley/Sun version? Thanks, Al Gaspar -- Al Gaspar <gaspar@st-louis-emh2.army.mil> (used to be <gaspar@almsa-1.arpa>) USAMC CSDA, ATTN: AMXAL-OW, Box 1578, St. Louis, MO 63188-1578 COMMERCIAL: (314) 263-5118 AUTOVON: 693-5118 uunet.uu.net!st-louis-emh2.army.mil!gaspar
oz@yunexus.UUCP (Ozan Yigit) (03/30/89)
In article <18835@adm.BRL.MIL> gaspar@st-louis-emh2.army.mil (Al Gaspar) writes: > >... has done a great job in getting the Berkeley/Sun version >of indent into the public domain. I did not do much, except to ask/bug some people, contact its original author, and those others who worked on it, to clarify its original status, copyright issues etc. >I noticed that the -bg, -dj, -ndf, -pb, and -npb options from the older >public domain version are missing from Oz's version of indent posted >to unix-sources. What I would like to know is if there is someone >else still working on indent that plans on incorporating the older >public domain version into Oz's Berkeley/Sun version? I do not know if you can call the original version public-domain, but certainly assumed to be publicly-distributable: there is some work afoot to find ways to babysit the code, and include patches, further enhancements etc. in a coordinated manner. Some folks at BSD are planning to do major revisions, and I am sure just about every option to typeset C code will be included in due time. (tomorrow ? :-) oz -- ... and I say to them, Usenet: oz@nexus.yorku.ca `Where the hell were you ......!uunet!utai!yunexus!oz when the page was blank?' Bitnet: oz@[yulibra|yuyetti] Harlan Ellison Phonet: +1 416 736-5257x3976
rsalz@bbn.com (Rich Salz) (03/31/89)
In article <18835@adm.BRL.MIL> gaspar@st-louis-emh2.army.mil (Al Gaspar) writes: =... has done a great job in getting the Berkeley/Sun version =of indent into the public domain. In <1421@yunexus.UUCP> oz@yunexus.UUCP (Ozan Yigit) writes: =I did not do much, except to ask/bug some people, contact its original =author, and those others who worked on it, to clarify its original status, =copyright issues etc. You did a lot. This kind of nitty-gritty detail work can be a real drag, and the work who did is really appreciated! = there is some work =afoot to find ways to babysit the code Keith Bostic of UCB <bostic@okeeffe.berkeley.edu> has someone working on it, and I've had anyone who wrote patches, or who volunteered to work on the code, to contact him. When the new version is ready, it will appear in comp.sources.unix /r$ -- Please send comp.sources.unix-related mail to rsalz@uunet.uu.net.