On 6/15/19 9:45 PM, Gerald Pfeifer wrote:
On Sun, 15 Jul 2018, Basile Starynkevitch wrote:
Basile, should we generally remove this reference to GCC MELT?
Yes. I am no more working on MELT, but I did begin to work on its successor:
Sorry for the delay - I finally applied the patch below.
If/when you want that successor to be listed on our extensions
page, please advise (ideally submitting a patch, or even going
ahead an applying it and just posting the patch).
The successor (Bismon) is not ready, it is free software (GPLv3+
license), but still unreleased. So alpha stage. And it is a research
project (so obligation of means, not of results).
You could look at the code on http://github.com/bstarynk/bismon/ (the
copyright belongs to my employer, but could be transfered to FSF when/if
wanted).
You could read a technical draft report on Bismon on
http://starynkevitch.net/Basile/bismon-chariot-doc.pdf but this is a
draft report and I am quite often improving it; feel free to provide any
feedback to me (by email) about it; the title of that report is quite
baroque, but mandated by the H2020 project funding the work. Notice that
H2020 projects (see
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Framework_Programmes_for_Research_and_Technological_Development#Horizon_2020
for more) are excessively bureaucratic (and more than previous European
research projects), and not very FSF or GNU or free software friendly.
I don't even know if that Bismon will be ready for GCC before I am
retiring. (probably in 2024, and perhaps in 2023).
I do know that once retired, I won't work on Bismon (and probably won't
work much on GCC neither). I would work on some other free software
project (also GPLv3+). I am waiting for my retirement....
Cheers.
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Basile STARYNKEVITCH == http://starynkevitch.net/Basile
opinions are mine only - les opinions sont seulement miennes
Bourg La Reine, France
