On Mon, Jul 23, 2012 at 4:27 AM, Giulio Paci <giuliop...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On 21/07/2012 08:34, Gergely Nagy wrote: > > Rustom Mody <rustompm...@gmail.com> writes: > > > >> I use and am interested in packaging the C interpreter > >> http://www.linuxbox.com/tiki/node/149 > > > >> 1. Its not under GPL but a 'creative licence' > > > >>From the homepage, and the source, this 'creative license' appears to be > > the Artistic License, used by, for example, Perl. I do not think that > > will be a problem. > > > >> 2. It build does not use autotools but make with small edits. I guess I > >> could try putting it under autotools > > > > Please don't do that. There's absolutely nothing wrong with not using > > autotools. If minor edits is all the upstream build system needs, doing > > that is far less invasive than replacing the whole build system. > > > > Especially as there is no upstream to send the autotoolsification to, > > there is absolutely no need to do such an invasive change. > > > >> 3. Its an old project > > > > Now this is a bigger isse: with no upstream, possible bugs are all yours > > to fix. Are you willing and capable of acting as if you were the > > upstream author? > > I think this issue is alleviated by the fact that someone seems to have > worked on this interpreter during the last year. Further information can > be found here: > http://eic-howto.wikispaces.com/ > > > I do not think a C interpreter adds any value, > > I think a C interpreter can be useful if it can be embedded and > integrated into applications, as it allows for C scripting and quick > prototyping of functions, which can be both positive. > > What are the benefits of EIC with respect to Tiny CC (tcc package) and > CINT (root-system package) that others have suggested? > Interpreter means two different things: scripting engine and something interactive like 'being-in-a-shell.' tiny cc only seems to be a scripting interpreter. ie I cant start it up and play around 'inside it' like for shell/python etc End of this mail Ive put a few lines from an example interaction with eic root system seems quite large: trying to install root-system-bin gives me: 46 packages install, 27 MB to download trying to install root-system gives me: 133 packages install, 50 MB to download eic source is 500K > Bests, > Giulio. > Thanks Guilo for responding. Rusi $ eic ************************************************************************* EiC V4.3.3 - Copyright (c) 1995 to 2000, by Edmond J. Breen EiC comes `as is' and with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY OF MERCHANTIBILITY AND FITNESS OF PURPOSE ************************************************************************* C 1> 1+2; 1+2; 3 C 2> 1 << 3; 1 << 3; 8 C 3> printf("%d << %d is %d\n", 3,4,3<<4) printf("%d << %d is %d\n", 3,4,3<<4) Error in ::EiC:: near line 3: Expected ; Error: clean up forced C 4> printf("%d << %d is %d\n", 3,4,3<<4); printf("%d << %d is %d\n", 3,4,3<<4); 3 << 4 is 48 13 C 5> printf("%d << %d is %d\n", 2,4,2<<4); printf("%d << %d is %d\n", 2,4,2<<4); 2 << 4 is 32 13 -------------------------------------
