[M3devel] Status of CM3

[Tony Hosking]

Jay might comment on C backend status for those platforms.

On May 27, 2014, at 11:40 AM, John Marino <adacore at marino.st> wrote:

> On 5/27/2014 17:34, Dragiša Durić wrote:
>> You can count on me for release engineering, Git migration… Maybe CI,
>> if I have resources. Problem is - feedback is poor from core
>> developers wrt Git migration. I am ready for long time now.
> 
> 
> This might be a good time to remind that I've been waiting for a release
> that feature C-backend support for both FreeBSD and DragonFly (new).
> The version in FreeBSD ports is 4 years old, but there's not been a
> release since then.  The last time I was active on the list we discussed
> the needs of FreeBSD and for porting M3 to DragonFly and something was
> supposed to happen code-wise (and then release-wise) but I don't think
> anything did in the end.
> 
> I was extremely busy with other projects but was planning on pinging on
> this topic soon anyway.
> 
> John
> 
> 
>> 
>> On 25 May 2014, at 18:36, Olaf Wagner <wagner at elegosoft.com> wrote:
>> 
>>> On Sun, 25 May 2014 22:35:09 +0800 Bruce Axtens
>>> <bruce.axtens at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> 
>>>> Dear Sir
>>>> 
>>>> Should I assume that CM3 is alive, in palliative care or dead?
>>>> The trac system is full of spam and the roadmap hasn't moved for
>>>> 3 years.
>>>> 
>>>> I had a long and fruitful relationship with Modula-2 years ago
>>>> and thought that perhaps I could restart things with CM3.
>>> 
>>> There is certainly some activity in M3 development recently,
>>> though the community is rather small. The trac system has never
>>> been much used by the community members; and the WWW presentation
>>> and regression testing system has lacked my support, as I couldn't
>>> spent any time on these topics for almost 3 years.
>>> 
>>> You should check the m3devel mailing list for news though: 
>>> https://mail.elegosoft.com/pipermail/m3devel
>>> 
>>> There has been a lot of activity at the beginning of this year; it
>>> has ceased again during recent weeks.
>>> 
>>> All CVS commits can be found here: 
>>> https://mail.elegosoft.com/pipermail/m3commit
>>> 
>>> A new release is long overdue; I'm afraid I cannot do the release 
>>> engineering this time.
>>> 
>>> There has been some effort on moving the CVS repositories to git; 
>>> I'm not sure what the status is there, too.
>>> 
>>> Any help wrt. documentation, presentation or software is greatly 
>>> appreciated ;-)
>>> 
>>> Regards,
>>> 
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