Re: [open-cobol-list] Gary Cutler's GNU Cobol 2.0 Programmer's Guide

[Brian Tiffin]

On 11/27/13, Gary Cutler <address@hidden> wrote:
> The code in svs appears to be based on 1.1 - I assume/hope the author is
> working on rolling his changes up to the 2.0 base.  I look forward to adding
> it to the Programmer's Guide.

If you are talking about trunk or the fileiorewrite branch, then yes.
Joe had his changes in from an early (pre Feb 2009)  1.1, then took
the time to try and share, and bumped into a pretty steep merge curve.
 Simon knows more about this branch.

Ron's work in the reportwriter branch is based on Roger's last known
closed 2.0 beta tarball.

For most people, the svn links are for trunk only.  It's 1.1 still.
And it's the default link shown on all the web screens.  Developers
want to be one level up.

Gary you can see the new code bases in the four main branches, (as
it's non-obvious), remove /trunk from the url, ending in /code
instead, to see all the branches on an svn checkout.

A GNU Cobol merge will start soon.  I was thinking a 1.1 release to
GNU could soak before all the new 2.0 features, 2.1 now with RW, were
unveiled.  There won't be much soak time.  I'll get on the meta data
for the GNU Cobol 1.1 soon, (ChangeLogs etc) at the same time as the
2.0 packaging.  After synching up Simon, and getting the signature
keys all in place for GNU and get new primary links up.  Then back on
the forge, 2.1 will get merged into trunk as soon as we get the GNU
Savannah link in place.  Umm, I think that's how it should go now.  2
has too many cool things to hold back.  *Simon has been kind enough to
manage the keys to the source repositories, and I'd really like to
allow him veto powers on any of these planned manoeuvres.*

Plus, we need to see how Sergey's C++ emitter fits in the picture.
This is an branch that should get attention.  And then there are the
ESQL processors.  We should try and ship one with the product too.
It'll likely take a while to consolidate all the neat things
happening.

Cheers,
Brian

>
> I eagerly await "2.1".  I teach COBOL in addition to programming in it for a
> living and I use GNU COBOL in class.  That's why I spent so much time (and
> loving care) on the Programmer's Guide and GCic (née OCic).  That's also why
> I built distributions for both Windows and OSX.
>
>
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>> On Nov 27, 2013, at 7:44 PM, Brian Tiffin <address@hidden> wrote:
>>
>> Vince;
>>
>> I just told Gary about Report Writer, today.  ;-)
>>
>> Cheers,
>> Brian
>>
>>> On 11/27/13, Vincent Coen <address@hidden> wrote:
>>> Oops nope, he has left out RW :)
>>>
>>> Vince
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>> On 27/11/13 17:58, Brian Tiffin wrote:
>>>> See
>>>>
>>>> http://sourceforge.net/p/open-cobol/discussion/109661/thread/c48e6cc9/
>>>>
>>>> Thanks to Gary, GNU Cobol sports one of the finest manuals the world
>>>> has to offer.
>>>>
>>>> Cheers,
>>>> Brian
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