Re: [Savannah-hackers] savannah.gnu.org: submission of Burapha Compiler Kit

[Loic Dachary]

        Hi,

        I'm sorry, there must be a misunderstanding. Savannah accepts
to host projects that are not finished yet, of course. If you could
submit the project and explain what it is about (half a page will be
enough) it will be accepted.

        Cheers,

john ham writes:
 > Hello,
 > 
 > Everything about the project that I have was at the posted URL.  There isn't
 > any more documentation than you saw right now.  That's the reason I'm not
 > at 1.0 yet.
 > 
 > I don't want to be an official GNU project since I'm only 1 guy and trying 
 > to
 > comply with the offical GNU coding style while working in tcl would have
 > a cost I'm not prepared to pay in terms of time, and there wouldn't be any
 > real benefit to the users of the software.  The other team person joined but
 > never did anything.
 > 
 > Anyway, thanks for evaluating is GPL-ness, but if you are looking for some
 > complex new documentation before accepting the project I just don't have it.
 > "The Burapha Compiler Kit contains a compiler, an assembler, a GUI byte-code
 > VM interpreter all written in tcl/tk, and documentation on their design and
 > implementation."  really is the best summary I can give.  I can add it's a 
 > top-down
 > recursive descent parser for the compiler, and it's a 2-pass assembler [once 
 > to
 > get the labels, again to generate the output], and the interpreter of the 
 > byte-codes
 > is hand-coded spaghetti at this point (not a FSM or some other nice way to 
 > do it).
 > The plan is to incrementally improve the interpreter over time while not 
 > breaking
 > it beyond use during the process.
 > 
 > The docs link on the sourceforge site has all the documentation I have.  The 
 > language
 > that is input to the compiler is the nano-BASIC which is documented on the
 > sourceforge site.  It is very primitive, only supports scalar 1 byte signed 
 > integers
 > -127..127 + NAN, but it is meant as a teaching tool not a production tool.
 > 
 > Anyway, thanks again, but you're asking for something I just don't have.  I
 > gave you the best summary I could.   No hard feelings.   This project just 
 > isn't
 > up to your standards is all.  Could you suggest another site that accepts
 > less polished efforts such as mine?  Unlike many vaporware projects on
 > sourceforge that are in "planning", I do have working code and user-level
 > docs, but it appears you are only accepting post 1.0 projects that have
 > a level of sophistication my effort just cannot attain.
 > 
 > later - JGH
 > 
 > >From: Loic Dachary <address@hidden>
 > >Reply-To: address@hidden
 > >To: address@hidden
 > >CC: address@hidden
 > >Subject: Re: [Savannah-hackers] savannah.gnu.org: submission of Burapha 
 > >Compiler Kit
 > >Date: Sun, 17 Feb 2002 16:16:37 +0100
 > >
 > >Hi,
 > >
 > >Could you please submit your project again with a more detailed
 > >description (technically speaking) ? Half a page will do.
 > >
 > >Also please include in the description that I had a look to the
 > >distribution and that the GNU GPL is properly applied (congrats ;-).
 > >
 > >Thanks for your patience,
 > >
 > >address@hidden writes:
 > >  >
 > >  > A package was submitted to savannah.gnu.org.
 > >  > This mail was sent to address@hidden, address@hidden
 > >  >
 > >  >
 > >  > John Ham <address@hidden> described the package as follows:
 > >  > License: gpl
 > >  > Other License:
 > >  > Package: Burapha Compiler Kit
 > >  > System name: buraphakit
 > >  > This package does NOT want to apply for inclusion in the GNU project
 > >  >
 > >  > The Burapha Compiler Kit contains a compiler, an assembler, a GUI 
 > >byte-code VM interpreter all written in tcl/tk, and documentation on their 
 > >design and implementation.
 > >  >
 > >  > This project exists on sourceforge.net, and I want to move it here.  I 
 > >cannot end the project there, but I don\'t want to do any more development 
 > >there since they changed to the bad license.  The URL to my project there 
 > >is:
 > >  >
 > >  > http://sourceforge.net/projects/buraphakit
 > >  >
 > >
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