Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Kari Pahula <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
* Package name : alice Version : 1.3.0 Upstream Author : Programming Systems Lab, Saarland University * URL : http://ps.uni-sb.de/alice/ * License : GPL, BSD-like Programming Lang: C++, SML, Alice Description : Alice programming language A functional programming language based on Standard ML, extended with support for concurrent, distributed, and constraint programming. The Alice ML language extends Standard ML with several new features: . - Futures: laziness and light-weight concurrency with data-flow synchronisation - Higher-order modules: higher-order functors and abstract signatures - Packages: integrating static with dynamic typing and first class modules - Pickling: higher-order type-safe, generic & platform-independent persistence - Components: platform-independence and type-safe dynamic loading of modules - Distribution: type-safe cross-platform remote functions and network mobility - Constraints: solving combinatorical problems using constraint propagation and programmable search I've been wanting to package this one for a long time already, and started looking into it this weekend. There's still a few issues that I'll have to resolve. The release tarballs at http://ps.uni-sb.de/alice/download/sources/ have the alice runtime system in compiled bytecode format only. Not having the source would fail DFSG, but fortunately it's available in the CVS. For security fixes' sake I'll retool the build system to compile the bytecode on debian/rules build and not just include the sources along with upstream's binary blobs. Also, Alice doesn't seem to be quite FHS compliant. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
