Dear AmForthers,
as previously announced I made this weekend the official
AmForth Weekend 2 / 2020-08-01,02
So what happened?
- Commits
r2447: tools/amforth-shell.py ported to python3
the corresponding patch was kindly contributed by Tristan
Williams, thank you!
r2448: added Tristan to contributors list
r2449: tools/amforth-upload.py fixed logic error in
search_and_open_file
Synced website.
- Progress
- both amforth-upload.py and amforth-shell.py are using
"python", which means python2. Since python2 is being
discontinued, these should be ported to python3. Anyone
interested?
[2020-08-01 Sat]
Tristan Williams send a patch to port amforth-shell.py to python3.
This work is committed.
amforth-upload.py remaining ... but see next point.
https://sourceforge.net/p/amforth/mailman/message/37075138/
- amforth-upload.py is broken for me, I use the file from 4.0.
But I have not bothered to find out exactly what breaks on
me/my code.
[2020-08-01 Sat]
Fix attempted, needs someone elso to confirm that it works.
I also attempted to port this script to python3 but failed
miserably :-)
https://sourceforge.net/p/amforth/mailman/message/37075266/
- The refcard generator is broken probably since release 5.6
link to email archive (Martin Nicholas June 2020)
https://sourceforge.net/p/amforth/mailman/message/37047630/
[2020-08-01 Sat]
Mark Roth has contributed a few things to make this work again.
See thread starting here:
https://sourceforge.net/p/amforth/mailman/message/37060533/
and especially here:
https://sourceforge.net/p/amforth/mailman/message/37063662/
Things are more involved, however, see this thread:
https://sourceforge.net/p/amforth/mailman/message/37075410/
- Open Issues
as far as I'm aware:
- WDT (Martin Nicholas) patch
Martin has provided a small patch (.asm) regarding the
startup of the WDT (watch dog timer) on atmega2560
controllers. I have honestly no idea, whether or not this
will break something else, and under which conditions exactly
this is needed.
link to email archive (Martin Nicholas, June 2019)
https://sourceforge.net/p/amforth/mailman/message/36682958/
- Multitasker documentation
This needs to be tested and enhanced in a few ways. It might
be that the current example in the Cookbook section is simply
broken. There have been questions about how to better
populate the task local user area. Maybe this could be
answered by a more complex example. There has been the
question about producing output from a task (not the cmd
loop), its collision with the shared HLD/TAB area, and
possible ways to solve this (semaphores, task local HLD/TAB).
link to email archive (Jan Kromhout Feb 2019)
https://sourceforge.net/p/amforth/mailman/message/36596842/
- " du< " is missing
link to email archive (Martin Nicholas August 2019)
https://sourceforge.net/p/amforth/mailman/message/36748496/
- AmForth Weekend 3
Shall take place on 2020-08-29,30 --- four weeks from now.
Thank you very much for your precious time!
Take care and happy hacking,
Erich
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May the Forth be with you ...
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