Bug#376431: marked as done (RFP: openwatcom -- C/C++ compiler/IDE that make efficient, portable code)
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has caused the Debian Bug report #376431,
regarding RFP: openwatcom -- C/C++ compiler/IDE that make efficient, portable code
to be marked as done.
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Package: wnpp
Severity: wishlist
* Package name : openwatcom
Version : I plan to do version 1.4 (or 1.6, if it comes out soon)
Upstream Author : an independent team of volunteer contributors
* URL : http://www.openwatcom.org/
* License : Sybase Open Watcom Public License 1.0 (it is OSI-approved)
Description : C/C++ compiler and IDE that produce efficient, portable code
Open Watcom includes a C/C++ IDE and a full set of command-line tools
for compilation, including the superb Watcom debugger. It emits
easy-to-understand errors and warnings when things go wrong. Current
outstanding issues include imperfect template support and an inability
to dynamically link with shared libraries built by GCC. These will be
fixed sooner if you help. :-)
There is also an Open Watcom Fortran 77 compiler, but I probably won't
package it. I might package the full manual set, or I may just ship the
PDFs on the website. I have not checked if the docs are Free or non-Free.
Help Wanted
===========
I have started work on the openwatcom package already. If someone is
interested in co-maintaining or helping out with it or with an
openwatcom-doc package (which may have to go into non-free), please
email me.
Will I succeed in getting Open Watcom into Debian?
==================================================
I am not a Debian Developer, and I have never built a Debian package
before. Based on the challenges involved, I do not know if I will
succeed in making a policy-compliant package:
* Open Watcom is a huge package, and it does not use autoconf or
automake. It is built using Watcom tools called wmake and builder.
Luckily, wmake and pbuilder can be built using GCC / G++.
* Open Watcom requires various environment variables to be set before
use, which goes against Debian policy. I hope not to use shell scripts
wrapping each binary and checking that $WATCOM is set; IMO that would
be too big a kludge. Instead, I hope to address this issue by patching
the source code, as I have started to do already with the owcc tool.
In sum, I do not know if I will succeed in building a finished package
or not. If you are curious about how the work is going at any point, or
if you want a copy of my work so far, please feel free to email me.
The package I have built so far currently installs OK and seems to work for
basic use. However, the it installs a bunch of non-executable
files to /usr/bin, has no real README, and has many other problems.
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Hello,
This is an automatic mail sent to close the RFP you have reported or
are involved with.
Your RFP wnpp bug is being closed because of the following reasons:
- It is, as of today, older than 365 days.
- It hasn't had any activity recently.
As this is an automatic procedure, it could of course have something
wrong and probably it would be closing some bugs that are not
intended by owners and submitters (like you) to be closed, for
example if the RFP is still of your interest, or there has been
some kind of activity around it. In that case, please reopen the
bug, do it, DO IT NOW! (I don't want to be blamed because of
mass closing and not let people know that they can easily reopen
their bugs ;-).
To re-open it, you simply have to mail control@bugs.debian.org
with a body text like this:
reopen 376431
stop
Further comments on the work done in the bug sent to
376431@bugs.debian.org would be truly welcomed.
Anyway, if you have any kind of problems when dealing with
the BTS, feel free to contact me and I'd be more than happy to help
you on this: <damog@debian.org>.
A similar process is being applied to other kind of wnpp bugs.
Thanks for your cooperation,
-- David Moreno Garza <damog@debian.org>.
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