[opensuse] SPITBOL linux
Hello All, This is my first posting to the list. I would like to announce. That a port of R.B.K Dewar's, Macro Spitbol, is now available for linux. It is released and maintained by Dave Shields. Below is a copy of his original announcement to the Spitbol mail list. And a link to the download site. I have compiled it onto both OpenSuse 64 & 32bit systems. And I made a small correction to the makefile to produce a makefile that works with all versions of 12.1 And I have a tgz of it if anybody would like. Does this list take attachments? If it does I could upload a nifty example database program that I wrote years ago. It does not use tables, arrays, or lists. It is extremely fast, very small (about one page) and is very difficult to produce in a structured language. Snobol4 language is both unstructured and structured. Friendly regards, Greg White White Cybernetics - Casterton Vic. Australia ............................ Hi, SPITBOL/Linux v3.8.1, the first implementation of SPITBOL for LInux, and the first release of Macro SPITBOL in over a decade, is now available. Mark Emmer maintained Macro SPITBOL for well over two decades, with great care and on his own time, and his own dime. I know all in the SNOBOL/SPITBOL community appreciate his contributions. Though he will continue with the project, I will be the maintainer going forward. The project is be hosted at http://github.com/daveshields/spitbol-linux. We will use wikis, issue trackers and such other tools as are provided by Github. There will be no mail lists. We will use twitter instead, username @spitbol. -- thanks, dave -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org
A most important feature of SPITBOL is that the machine state can be saved at any given time, for re-execution at the point it exited. For example, in one of my extreme-strength encryption engines, I would not want to travel for years or months etc., to get to the same point. Regards, Greg -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org
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A most important feature of SPITBOL is that the machine state can be saved at any given time, for re-execution at the point it exited. For example, in one of my extreme-strength encryption engines, I would not want to travel for years or months etc., to get to the same point. Regards,
Greg
Greg, Opensuse lays claim of the most open of all distros. Meaning you can easily get an account at build.opensuse.org (obs) and create a package for spitbol in your home project, then submit that to a devel project, then submit it to factory from the devel package. From factory it automatically ends up in the next major release. You have to have a open license of course for the above to be possible. (Lots of allowed licenses, but also lots of dis-allowed licenses so this can be a real hurdle). If spitbol compiles cleanly, someone who knows obs could get the home project package created and built in under 30 minutes easy. The submissions take longer because someone has to review and accept the package. Legal review for non-open licensing often takes the longest, but that doesn't happen until the factory step. Opensuse 12.2 has already been split off from factory, so 12.3 (12.2+1) is your first real option. In the meantime, obs has a formal rpm publishing mechanism that lets opensuse users install rpms directly from devel projects, or even home projects. If this sounds like too much work, you could post a message about spitbol to opensuse-packaging (or opensuse-factory) and ask if anyone would be willing to do the above for you. We call that being a package maintainer. Good luck Greg -- Sent from my Android phone with K-9 Mail. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org
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