Hi, thanks for your reply. Although it's not easy for me to have a dedicated machine for development, I've finally managed to set up a running -current environment from the latest snapshot.
> Attached is an updated tarball, keeping you as maintainer, Giuseppe, and > doing what I believe was your intent from the original submission. Thank you for the update, I am working with the new tarball right now. > But then the apl interpreter inverts the colors on my terminal, leading to > black text on black background, so the only thing I can really do is issue > "exit" to close the terminal. This is the expected behavior of the interpreter. Unfortunately, the color feature seems to be more annoying than useful (and the configuration file mention the issue you experienced as well), but there is an option in the configuration file and also a command line flag to disable coloring altogether (coloring can also be disabled from within the interpreter itself). Following your request, I will patch the default configuration file in order to disable coloring. Also, I was wondering whether it is the case to include in the package the standard APL font (not part of the original distribution) and install it in the default X11 font directory. It would save new users a lot of woe, I suppose, since the language uses a non-ASCII set of characters and symbols for which a new font is needed. My only concern so far is that I have not been able to find any information on the license of this font that anyway seems to be in the public domain. Best, On Wed, Jul 19, 2017 at 1:03 AM, Brian Callahan <bcal...@devio.us> wrote: > Hi Giuseppe, ports -- > > On 07/18/17 06:16, Giuseppe Cocomazzi wrote: >> >> Hello, >> I've just finished porting GNU APL to OpenBSD. >> GNU APL is a free interpreter for Kenneth Iverson's APL >> programming language. More details about the project >> are available on the homepage: >> >> https://www.gnu.org/software/apl/ >> >> The port has been built and tested on the following >> system: >> >> OpenBSD misery.doom.loc 5.9 GENERIC.MP#1616 i386 > > > I'll just chime in too and remind everyone to always develop new ports on > -current, as the infrastructure and internals of the ports mechanism very > well may change from release to release. And indeed, especially lately, > there has been a lot of really great work on improving the mechanisms around > compiler selection, for example. > >> and it is available at: >> >> http://sbudella.altervista.org/stuff/openbsd-apl.tgz >> >> Feedback and suggestions would be really appreciated. > > > However, this port is mostly complete and really only needs a few tweaks to > get it in shape for importing. > > Attached is an updated tarball, keeping you as maintainer, Giuseppe, and > doing what I believe was your intent from the original submission. > > It builds, packages, and seems to run on amd64. However, I have absolutely > no idea how to use APL or this interpreter, so I can only confirm that it > indeed does not segfault or otherwise crash when run. Note, the command to > quit the interpreter is )OFF (that is, a close parentheses followed by OFF). > But then the apl interpreter inverts the colors on my terminal, leading to > black text on black background, so the only thing I can really do is issue > "exit" to close the terminal. Perhaps, Giuseppe, you could write a default > config file so that the apl environment does what the user might expect? > > ~Brian > -- Giuseppe Cocomazzi My self is steam. http://sbudella.altervista.org No Linkedin profile available.
