GPC: "how to contribute" file -- job list_(re)

Tue, 23 Jul 96 16:28:00 CST

On Fri, 5 Jul 1996 11:01:03 +0200 (MET DST), 
Peter Gerwinski   wrote:

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>        List of jobs
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>        DJ version (DOS)                        JanJaap         works

I came across a new DJGPP app called "rhide"
It's a Borland-clone IDE that works with djgpp (C & C++)
I'll see if I can hack it to work with GPC. Would make a neat Turbo Pascal
replacement ;)


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>        Installation instructions               Larry            ?
>        Documentation                           Larry            ?
>

Larry, if you're there: I rewrote much of the installation notes.
Also, I took a "Using and porting GCC" manual, did a "search GCC -- replace
with GPC" action, TeXi-fied much of the existing readme's and put it all 
together. Let me know how to send this stuff to you.


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>        Run time system                         Juki            works

I have preliminary, new "autoconf" scripts for RTS. Should reduce 
configuration to "configure ; make". Handles all CFLAGS, platform dependant 
includes etc. I'll see if I can do something simular for GPC itself.

Some other RTS related remarks:

*) GNU is going international. How about adding localization to RTS?
Won't work if you're not on un*x, but can be buildtime selectable
(flag to autoconf script)

*) How 'bout RTS as an ELF shared library?

*) Documentation again: RTS needs documentation. I looked at the Cygnus and
DJGPP C libraries and they use Texinfo fragments in the source, extract it
with some utility to one big texinfo file. That way it's easy to keep
documentation up to date.

>        Replacement for (parts of) CRT          Peter           beta (BO5)
>        Replacement for Graph                   Peter           planned
>        Replacement for Turbo Vision            Peter           planned
>

Now, if somebody would port TVision to un*x (use termcap / info instead of
direct screen writes) it would probably be not too much work to port this 
RHIDE thing to unix. Then you have an IDE. (sorry guys, I'll never be a fan
of emacs)

/janjaap

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