Philip Blundell writes:
> >The 2.3 CVS tree.
>
> That certainly did contain 7500 support last time I looked, assuming you are
> talking about the one at netwinder.org.
Naturally.
> It's several years since I used Acorn C but I thought it did come with a diff
> program. Or one could use a Unix system for maintaining the source.
> Regardless, this seems like a tangential issue to the question of whether to
> actually release source or not. LinLoader is GPL'd so there is an existence
> proof that RISC OS free software is possible.
It's certainly not tangential at all. It's a question of the amount of time
and tools. There is a diff program, but it does not produce any sort of
output that could be passed into a patch-type program. The output of !Diff
is only useful for documentation purposes.
This lack of a standard diff/patch is /the problem/ and /the reason/ why it's
not open-sourced. If someone can show me a practical solution to this, then
it will get open-sourced. Until that time, it remains as is.
Also, it's worth noting that !Linux cannot be linked by the newer Acorn tools,
since the AOF format has changed in non-backward compatable ways (which prevent
the non-source distributable library which the programs link against linking).
Basically, development on RISC OS is a mess, just like partitioning stuff on
Acorn machines.
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