On 2005-01-26, Jürgen Schober wrote:
Well, it's getting quiet here (somehow), or it's just my impression ?
No, it has become a tad more quiet - which I think is both because the most urgent questions seem to be resolved and because people are discovering that they have a life also. :-)
The sub-projects are also starting to take form so people might be working on them. :-)
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So, those are your immediate tasks ? Anything I can help out?
Certainly. One suggestion off the top of my head is to help out with untangling the dependancy tree of OOo. SieGeL posted a list of the subdirectories of the OOo source tree recently and improving it would help.
Otherwise you can always come up with your own suggestions.
Perhaps our benevolent non-dictator has a suggestion?
BTW: I don't know if anyone did that already...I just compiled the single csh files with the gcc3.4 but didn't link them yet. Suddenly I have only
Already examined it. As you already discovered, it seems far too incomplete to be useful for running anything but the simplest csh scripts.
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(-lunix ?). So, csh requires a major rewrite. Didn't look into (the mentioned) tcsh, yet.
I also examined tcsh a bit and even if it appears to be fairly portable there is still the problem of fork() in addition to some smaller things like termios, a few signals etc.
The general consensus seems to be that it is easier to write a ne c-shell intepreter. (i.e. a c-shell without any command-line features)
And no, I have no clue how a sh really works. I am no unix guru...
Don't worry. It seems we have at least a couple of people with several years of Unix experience on the list. Feel free to ask if there is anything in particular you wonder.
-Peter aka. Archprogrammer
Reality is for people who cannot face ScienceFiction. Only lefthanded people are in their right minds.