Re: Modula-3

[Anthony Fok <foka@gpu.srv.ualberta.ca>]

On Wed, Apr 22, 1998 at 02:42:37PM +0200, Martin Schulze wrote:
> On Wed, Apr 22, 1998 at 02:34:51PM +0200, Michael Meskes wrote:
> > Do we have a modula-3 compiler? I thought about packaging cvsup. Since
> > postgresql is distributed via cvsup I use it anyway and I'd like to get rid
> > of that local precompiled libc5 version I use right now. But packaging
> > modula-3 compiler seems like a lot of work.
> 
> Not as far as I know.  There was a positing about this in February
> on debian-devel or debian-private.  There's an address given from
> the group who has ported it to something.  I don't have it handy,
> sorry, I only have a note, reminding me that s/o should take a
> look at it...

Stuart Lamble <sjl@debian.lib.monash.edu.au> was working on packaging the
SRC Modula-3 (I think), but he had been very very busy (?) and for some time
he didn't (or still doesn't?) have access to the Internet.

AFAIK, there are three alternative Modula-3 distributions that we could
choose to package:

  * DEC SRC Modula-3 3.6

  * Cambridge Modula-3  (cam3)
     - Richard Watts <rrw1000@cus.cam.ac.uk>

  * École Polytechnique de Montréal Modula-3 (pm3)
     - Michel Dagenais <dagenais@cassis.vlsi.polymtl.ca>
       http://m3.polymtl.ca/dagenais/home/home.html
       http://m3.polymtl.ca/  (?)

CAM3 and PM3 are both based on SRC M3 3.6 (?) and have been reported to work
on Red Hat 5.0 (glibc2) AFAIK.  :-)  I recommend that we go with either PM3
or CAM3.  (I would prefer PM3 myself because it is a Product of Canada.  :-)

For more information about Modula-3, check out:

	http://www.w3.org/

Cheers,

Anthony

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