From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,FREEMAIL_FROM autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Thread: 103376,de4046858a88bacb X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public,usenet X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit Path: g2news1.google.com!news1.google.com!news.glorb.com!peer1.news.newnet.co.uk!194.159.246.34.MISMATCH!peer-uk.news.demon.net!kibo.news.demon.net!news.demon.co.uk!demon!not-for-mail From: Simon Wright Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Ada OS Date: Wed, 09 Jan 2008 21:15:57 +0000 Organization: Pushface Message-ID: References: <1c50901a-7e4c-4495-ac1c-000ffc054a86@21g2000hsj.googlegroups.com> <5USgj.398021$kj1.286535@bgtnsc04-news.ops.worldnet.att.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: pogner.demon.co.uk Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: news.demon.co.uk 1199913358 6127 62.49.19.209 (9 Jan 2008 21:15:58 GMT) X-Complaints-To: abuse@demon.net NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 9 Jan 2008 21:15:58 +0000 (UTC) Cancel-Lock: sha1:Dn+lVc8b4D1K4gSklq6SlxjX3ao= User-Agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.1 (darwin) Xref: g2news1.google.com comp.lang.ada:19299 Date: 2008-01-09T21:15:57+00:00 List-Id: anon@anon.org (anon) writes: > Really, you say: No release! > > http://c2ada.wiki.sourceforge.net/ > > This web page ("wiki") should contain the history and status > of the project. Location of the main documentation and links > to the files. > > No files in the Download section but there are in the SVN area! > > http://c2ada.svn.sourceforge.net/viewvc/c2ada/ If there is nothing in the download section then there is no release. > "jcreem" may be the one that inserted the files but as primary > manager, "Simon Wright" is responsible for the project. Why am I in quotes? Do you think that's not my name? Where do you get the notion that I'm primary manager? (if nominated I will not run, ...). > A unmodified version of the file c2ada_linux_august_2007.zip > should be in the download area as an archived version. Not a completely unreasonable point, I have to admit rather against my will. Actually, I'd like the one before as well .. if possible the whole history! > You did not see my other post on Ada OS where I stated that > to proved the usage and to documentation the operation of > the "c2ada" the program should be used on itself. No rewrite! > Just using the program on itself to prove that it works and > then posting this new version. I don't normally read your posts, cos you're in my kill file. > That is: > > 1. Placed the original zip file into the download > area stating that this was the original code and > is stored for archiving purposes only. > > 2. Documenting the following steps ( 3 .. 5 ). > > 3. Compile the program. > > 4. Using the c2Ada to convert the original "c2ada" > C code to a standard Ada 95 code. c2ada is nowhere near capable of this. Personally I wouldn't want to *convert* a whole C program to Ada, though I've no objection at all to using an interface converter (such as I took c2ada to be) to front-end an existing implementation. > 5. Editing the 20% of the code that the program > bypasses. > > 6. Placing this new "ADA ONLY" version into the > SVN tree as well as an archived version in the > downloading area. > > 7. Insert the documented transition (from step 2) > into the web site. > > Time Table: A couple of weekends. Basically while watching > TV on Saturday and Sunday afternoon. One weekend > for converting the program and a second for > correcting the documentation and uploading. Hello, Planet Earth calling anon, it took that long to get the thing to compile on Mac OS X (mainly, convert regexp.h usage to regex.h). > Then later: > 8. Update the program for Ada 2005. > > Of course, you could leave step 8 for others but the documentation > on the main web page should say this. And for editing the program > could be done during commercials. Personally I prefer to get up and make tea/stretch legs. > As for SourceForce.Net, it is for open source projects, not for a set > of broken projects that hurt the OSI because they do not work. It is > one thing, if the project becomes outdated, but projects like "c2ada" > do not become outdated. Well maybe if "C" becomes outdated, but that > is not going to happen any time soon. I don't think c2ada would be very interesting if there was no more Ada. I don't think that c2ada is broken exactly, it just doesn't work yet. Why it doesn't work when (presumably) it used to -- probably before someone tried to make it translate function bodies as well as specs -- is a different matter.