Re: Is GPC dead?

 

I take your point that things could be more clearly spelt out on the
GPC web site about the current state of play. But we did discuss this
matter at length in 2010 - see


http://www.g-n-u.de/pipermail/gpc/2010-July/thread.html 

Best
regards, 

The Chief 

On 29.12.2016 18:03, Ken Linder wrote: 

> With
all due respect to Prof. Olowofoyeku, I do not personally find anything
well documented about the current state of GPC development on the GPC
homepage. The wikipedia page does have some helpful information
regarding its current state; however, information on a Wikipedia page is
not always accurate and may even be misleading. 
> As John wrote, the
most recent files on the website are quite old. There is no explanation
to the general person interested in GPC who visits the site, why there
is nothing newer. Nothing in the FAQ or documentation. Perhaps searching
the e-mail archives might yield something, but in my experience, people
with only cursory interest, will not dig deep for the answers. A topic
as serious as the current development state, especially for a project
like GPC that appears to have been abandoned, should be plainly state
somewhere on the project website. 
> PLEASE Please understand I am not
complaining. I am simply giving my opinion and offering my help. Pascal
was one of my first languages and I honestly would not enjoy seeing GPC
completely wither away and disappear. That said, I am NOT a compiler or
OS developer. I did briefly experiment with GPC code in the early
2000's, but have very little experience with C in general. That doesn't
mean I can't learn it; my learning curve would just be rather steep. 
>
It is my firm opinion we should chat about what can be done with GPC.
Should it be rewritten in C++? Should it be patched and cleaned up to
work with the newest GCC toolchains? Should GPC become a translator,
accepting pascal code and emitting C++? 
> Thoughts??? 
> -Ken

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