Re: [Savannah-hackers] savannah.gnu.org: submission of GNU DLX Simulator

[Mathieu Roy]

Hi,

We would like to get a tarball of the current version of your project. 
This is not really for testing it but to help you to fix potential 
licensing problems.

About the name of your project, before calling it directly GNU DLX you 
should call it DLX (or free DLX or something else) until it's a GNU 
package, official part of the GNU Project, to avoid confusions.
Usually people wait a more mature stade to apply for being a GNU 
package. First you should read 
http://www.gnu.org/prep/standards_toc.html to see what means becoming a 
GNU Package, this should help you. 
So, please resubmit your project with a link to a tarball and a name 
without gnu (adding that later shouldn't be a problem). If you think 
your current code is fine with 
http://www.gnu.org/prep/standards_toc.html you can apply for the GNU 
project directly (doing it later is not a problem). :)

Regards,


Le mar 02 jui 2002 à 18h50, address@hidden a écrit :
> A package was submitted to savannah.gnu.org.
> This mail was sent to address@hidden, address@hidden
>
>
> Manuel A. Fernandez Montecelo <address@hidden> described the
> package as follows:
> License: gpl
> Other License:
> Package: GNU DLX Simulator
> System name: gnudlx
> This package wants to apply for inclusion in the GNU project
>
> Description:
> I want to create a simulator for the DLX processor. DLX is a RISC
> type, load/store machine similar to SPARC or MIPS, \"created\" for
> academic purposes by Patterson & Hennesy in the book \"Computer
> Architecture. A quantitative approach\" first published in the early
> 90s, ant there\'re no commercial versions of the processor as far as I
> know. (Maybe it could even be extended to run as a simulator for those
> similar machines).
>
> I want my simulator to \"understand\" the assembler dialect that they
> used in the book and then execute the program, show statistics,
> register status, pipeline and all that stuff. It would be optimal to
> see all of these working in a graphical environment, such as GNOME.
>
> There\'re other simulators like dlxsim created by the authors of the
> book itself, and other freely (beer) available and even free software
> with BSD licenses, but they are usually too bizarre or too old, I
> couldn\'t test most of them.
>
> There\'s an special one, WinDLX, for M$ Windows. Appart from being
> proprietary, it\'s compiled for 3.11 (too old) and no longer supported
> since 1991 more or less. But is quite cute and functional, I\'m
> inspired on it. I could take screenshots to show them to you.
>
> The project is still in a very early stage of development, barely
> parses the assembler programs and has difficulties with some
> directives. So there\'s no firm release, even no tarball publicy
> available, but I could put somewhere if you consideer it\'s worth test
> it (I think that is not, yet!).
>
> Other Software Required:
> I don\'t know :?
>
> GNU LibC, maybe GNOME in the future.. but no special software such as
> JavaVM.
>
> Other Comments:
> I want it to be GNU software, but I\'m not yet very familiar with all
> of the implications, I\'ll need help, sure! :)
>
>
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