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

[Gary Cutler]

I believe I got the right version ("reportwriter" - 23NOV2013).  It's tagged 
internally as "GNU COBOL 2.1".  I incorporated Sergey's recent fileio.c fix for 
the GOBACK problam and successfully built an OSX version.  Next is 
Windows/MinGW.  After that - V2.1 of the PG. :-)






On Nov 28, 2013, at 3:27 AM, Brian Tiffin <address@hidden> wrote:

> 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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>> Gary L. Cutler
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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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