Re: GNU Prolog Project

[Daniel Diaz]

Dear Roberto,

I'm sorry you are disappointed by GNU Prolog. It is true that I cannot 
devote as much time as I'd like to GNU Prolog. Since many years I have a 
lot of other duties together with some personal constraints which 
seriously limit the amount of "free time" I can devote to GNU Prolog. 
I'm the first to regret this situation.

However, saying GNU Prolog is unmaintained, is clearly exaggerated. I 
have released a stable version in January fixing several bugs and 
including new ports. I collect all bug reports and, when I have enough 
time, I fix some of them and release a version. But I mainly spend the 
little time that I have to design the next version (V2). This version 
will be a big step forward but will need deep code rewritings. Thus I 
try to set up a stable development team (4 developers would be nice) for 
this new version.

Again, I'm sorry GNU Prolog no longer satisfies you but this does not 
justify the aggressiveness of your post. I develop and maintain GNU 
Prolog for free as an open source product expecting it helps some users. 
It clearly not your case, I thus suggest you to use other "better, 
maintained, supported systems", "some of them may be what you are 
looking for" (sic).

Sincerely.


Roberto Bagnara a écrit :
> address@hidden wrote:
> > I was looking for something that congregates GNU and Prolog, and now I 
> > found.
> > I am Prolog programmer too, and Im soooo interested in the project, so,
> > if you have something I can enter or participate, or just enter the 
> > community, I
> > would like, Im very very interested in GNU Prolog.
>
> Good news!  If you look in the mailing list archives you will find several
> bug reports to which the official maintainer did not even bother to reply.
> I suggest you pick some of them and try to fix them.  Feel free to 
> contact me
> if you need clarifications and/or the indication of further bugs.
>
> However, perhaps you should clarify what you mean by "[congregating] GNU
> and Prolog".  GNU Prolog has "GNU" in the name and this is a pity because,
> due to this, an essentially unmaintained system draws a lot of attention
> to the detriment of better, maintained, supported systems.  Several of
> the systems I am talking about are released under the GNU licenses: despite
> not having "GNU" in their name, I think some of them may be what you
> are looking for.
> All the best,
>
>     Roberto