Re: Is GPC dead?

Hi Folks,

I'm not sure how committed people on this list are to staying with Pascal
but if you are prepared to jump ship to Ada then I can tell you from my own
experience it is well worth the effort. Some years ago (around the time of
the discussion "Quo vadis, GPC?") I made the leap and though it took a lot
of work (about 2 million lines of code) I am so glad I made the switch. The
Ada language is brilliant, it has everything I need as a scientific
programmer (just to mention a few points: native multi-tasking, strong
typing, generics, object oriented, procedure overloading, platform
independent). The compiler is part of the GNU collection so it is as
up-to-date as gcc (currently 6.1.0). There is a very active news group
comp.lang.ada. I used the p2ada tool to convert my files (it's a great
start but you will need to do a lot of work on the generated Ada files).
You can find the latest version at this web site

https://sourceforge.net/p/p2ada/code/HEAD/tree/

You might also like to read

http://p2ada.sourceforge.net/pascada.htm

which will give you some idea of the issues involved in making the change.

Cheers,
Leo Brewin
School of Mathematical Sciences
Monash University

On 4 January 2017 at 12:35, John L. Ries <[email protected]> wrote:

> The conversation with Frank Heckenbach was pretty much the last that was
> heard on this list on the status and direction of GPC.  It would have
> been good if there had been some follow-up conversations (I thought the
> exercise was enormously helpful, even though I disagreed with Frank's
> proposal), but instead, there was nothing.
>
> I'm going to see if it is even possible to compile and run GPC 2.1 on my
> OpenSUSE box and then see where to go from there (I'll probably follow
> up with Waldek Hebisch's latest-and-greatest from 2007, followed by
> whatever is currently in the Git repository he pointed us to).  I don't
> use Pascal professionally, but I do use it for personal projects (I
> greatly prefer it to C/C++) so I'll do what little I can to push things
> along.
>
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> On Monday 2017-01-02 10:53, Treutwein Bernhard wrote:
>
> >Date: Mon, 2 Jan 2017 10:53:18
> >From: Treutwein Bernhard <[email protected]>
> >To: "'[email protected]'" <[email protected]>
> >Subject: 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.
> >
> >Absolutely.
> >
> >> But we did discuss this matter at length in 2010 - see
> >>      http://www.g-n-u.de/pipermail/gpc/2010-July/thread.html
> >
> >When I started trying to use GPC in March, 2016 the whole GPC website
> >was defunc, but I was able to dig out the contact person (Peter Gerwisnki)
> >and he resurrected the pages. I also had a short PM exchange with him
> >about the slow death of GPC, and he pointed me to the 2010 thread and
> >specially Frank Heckenbach's summary, which I successfully found at
> >archive.org:
> >http://web.archive.org/web/20140714170318/http://fjf.gnu.
> de/gpc-future.html
> >
> >I do not know, if more groups have problems with keeping their projects up
> >with gcc development, but I know that GNU Modula-2 has similar problems.
> >
> >With some work, I was able to build a working GPC on TinyCore Linux, but
> >apparently I've lost my notes how I did it. I remember that I had to
> combine
> >several patches & tips from the mailing list, but I had success.
> >
> >I agree with Ken that it is not no straightforward way to get a running
> gpc
> >on a standard Linux. TinyCore is quite special in having very few tools
> only
> >in the default setup and you generally can use older packages without
> >big problems, but the more mainline distributions have interdependencies,
> >which make it quite difficult to downgrade to older versions.
> >
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