Re: packaged blassic and looking for a sponsor

[Gandalf Parker <gandalf@community.net>]

On Mon, 20 Aug 2007, José L. Redrejo Rodríguez wrote:
> > It might be a good idea to include BLASSIC as a package.
> >
> > The two BASICs in the catalog now seem abit dead. YaBasic is being
> > dropped by its developer. And BWBasic is open source but there is no
> > documentation, and apparently no forums.
> There is another basic in the catalog: gambas (versions 1 and 2) and 
> it's opensource and totally alive and kicking ;-) 
> http://gambas.sourceforge.net

Thank you for that information.
My confusion is because Gambas does not show up if I search in dselect or 
aptitude on "basic". You might want to fix that. When I searched for 
basic, I only found the two I mentioned.

So far, it also appears that Gambas requires X to run. I have loaded it 
and will look at it abit more but.. While I am sure that its a great 
program and fills a great need, it wont work for what I want. I use linux 
for servers, and I avoid GUI on servers.

Using Basic is of great use to me in doing CGI and system scripts. BLASSIC 
(Classic Basic) appears to be more of what I need. It runs basic code 
which was written for many basic variations, in the classic text-mode.

Gandalf  Parker