Hi Bruce.Axtens, > I've recently been given the sources for the Peter Campbell's FAST and > SOFA compilers (most recently found here: > http://vetusware.com/download/FAST programming language 2.67/?id=4454
Can you tell something about FAST and SOFA? Do they already work in DOS? > Peter, who died a couple of years back, was a NZ based > developer who devised and developed FAST and used it to write FastBase > <http://www.fastbase.co.nz/> (FastBase was eventually rewritten in > Tcl.). As far as I can tell, Peter's brother, who now runs the company > is happy to see FAST/SOFA released and left to wander off into oblivion. It would be good if you could get an official okay from him. > Eric, in one of your emails re eltorito you said, "make it ready for > opening source." What exactly does that entail? Is there a desire to see > FAST/SOFA become part of the FreeDOS stable of languages, and how do I > make that happen, if it can be? I was referring to the fact that the author of eltorito.sys is Dutch and may have Dutch comments in the source code - by translating them to English for him, we could help him if he has no time to update the comments himself. Other aspects of clean-up involve for example making makefiles etc more neutral (remove hardcoded paths to things which are only at place X on Bart's own PC, if necessary) or resolve dependencies on things that are not public. For example there could be some include files for which we could make stripped down versions which can be put inside a published version of the sources. Last but not least, software can contain private comments and scribbles which only the author can understand, those would have to be removed before publishing to avoid confusing others and to avoid publishing internal information... :-). Of course all those examples are based on GUESSING - I never saw any form of the eltorito.sys sources yet, not even a raw copy of whatever they look like on Bart's own computer. He also did not explain why it takes work to publish the sources, but I assume that it does take work as otherwise he could just upload a zip with the raw files and add a note like "do whatever you want with it" for example, which he did not. I do remember that making free-EMM386 sources useful for others involved adding comments and translating German comments to English, long ago. Eric ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Apps built with the Adobe(R) Flex(R) framework and Flex Builder(TM) are powering Web 2.0 with engaging, cross-platform capabilities. Quickly and easily build your RIAs with Flex Builder, the Eclipse(TM)based development software that enables intelligent coding and step-through debugging. Download the free 60 day trial. http://p.sf.net/sfu/www-adobe-com _______________________________________________ Freedos-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-devel
