On Fri, 26 Apr 2019 at 21:59, Joel Rees <> wrote: > Is anyone aware of the reason Gforth is no longer in packages?
gforth 0.7.0-2 was packaged for cygwin 1.7 about 10 years ago. It was part of the cygport extras mirror, which contained over 2,500 un-official and un-maintained packages. This mirror was retired several years ago due to, I think, lack of interest in the packages, and possibly the lack of an official maintainer. To quote the setup.hint file: category: Interpreters requires: libffi4 libgcc1 libltdl7 libtool sdesc: "GNU Forth language interpreter" ldesc: "Gforth is a fast and portable implementation of the ANS Forth language. It works nicely with the Emacs editor, offers some nice features such as input completion and history, backtraces, a decompiler and a powerful locals facility, and it even has a manual. Gforth combines traditional implementation techniques with newer techniques for portability and performance: its inner interpreter is direct threaded with several optimizations, but you can also use a traditional-style indirect threaded interpreter." The package for gforth 0.7.0-2 for cygwin 1.7 can be rebuilt using the git repository, and upgraded to the current version of cygwin (3.0.6), current versions of the dependencies, and then possibly to the latest Gforth version (0.7.3). I have also seen indications that it could be compiled using Mingw for Windows. > Is it just a matter of lack of maintainer? Would you like to volunteer? Otherwise, an existing or new maintainer might be interested. Or you could build it yourself for your own use. HTH Doug -- Doug Henderson, Calgary, Alberta, Canada - from gmail.com -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple
