retitle 376431 RFP: openwatcom -- C/C++ compiler/IDE that make efficient, portable code submitter 376431 [EMAIL PROTECTED] severity 376431 wishlist thanks
It looks unlikely I will manage to package this. It's too big a package to deal with as my first package ever. Open Watcom is complex; it does not use autoconf; and nobody has ever packaged the Linux port of Open Watcom before. Main issues include: - Open Watcom 1.5 does not seem to build on Linux. 1.4 and the dailies seem to build fine though. - the license (though they don't have to make that many changes to it - see thread on debian-legal) - paths and $WATCOM (Open Watcom expects the $WATCOM variable to be set, which conflicts with policy) - where will the data files go? surely not in /usr/local/watcom, right? - there has been some argument in the past in news://news.openwatcom.org/openwatcom.contributors about how the paths should be arranged. - there'd be a lot of manpages to write. and forget the idea of using help2man, openwatcom help is not in the proper format I think the first thing for whoever wants to package this to do would be to work with the upstream committers to deal with 2 things: the license (my advice: try to get it in non-free first, GPL idea can wait till later) and the path issue. In my opinion, the paths issue should be dealt with later on, in private and not on a public mailing list, so as to avoid starting a flamewar. If someone else decides to try take a stab at it, I'd love to hear your progress and I might be interested in co-maintaining. Also, if someone wants my .diff.gz with a debian/rules, a debian/control, and which modifies wcc, wcc386, and part of wlink to look in other paths, email me. The changes the .diff.gz makes aren't that well-written though. Cheers, Jason
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