X-Recipient: archive-cygwin AT delorie DOT com
DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=sourceware.org; h=list-id
	:list-unsubscribe:list-subscribe:list-archive:list-post
	:list-help:sender:mime-version:references:in-reply-to:from:date
	:message-id:subject:to:content-type; q=dns; s=default; b=An9bJxo
	P5XWSx1ncVe6NsYCztpp2bAjBed08qQtkQTw47RYdEQUP3+nNdhFyi96YWmOT4Ts
	eA4trK3u8pWoc1u1OP1pEH4E1nS4g0WSJK3lk8DL3gNwVwgextupk3QlBpg53hAa
	zmkULvyFXmyIidJPJcSNS4/85RcCtMlVOlJM=
DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha1; c=relaxed; d=sourceware.org; h=list-id
	:list-unsubscribe:list-subscribe:list-archive:list-post
	:list-help:sender:mime-version:references:in-reply-to:from:date
	:message-id:subject:to:content-type; s=default; bh=zmgm5u994u3tk
	6dAL6vBtNg5Qno=; b=p8ioN1uJ6nOuEIysNyoHVzlrAwlIDrbrbq5mIacHfrZ9A
	Kk4+Ho6aibB1FWDoSJto28Pb64KR/6wS6Q9tizMVqu5TwFUZcq8WbKbCAV0yEupk
	Zi8F9ZQklO7g9Hwx9cje/hOErWjOsPRte7pi6wJxImQz441PpfewripaLJmDe0=
Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help AT cygwin DOT com; run by ezmlm
List-Id: <cygwin.cygwin.com>
List-Subscribe: <mailto:cygwin-subscribe AT cygwin DOT com>
List-Archive: <http://sourceware.org/ml/cygwin/>
List-Post: <mailto:cygwin AT cygwin DOT com>
List-Help: <mailto:cygwin-help AT cygwin DOT com>, <http://sourceware.org/ml/#faqs>
Sender: cygwin-owner AT cygwin DOT com
Mail-Followup-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
Authentication-Results: sourceware.org; auth=none
X-Spam-SWARE-Status: No, score=0.1 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_05,FREEMAIL_FROM,FROM_LOCAL_NOVOWEL,HK_RANDOM_ENVFROM,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_NONE,SPF_PASS autolearn=no version=3.3.1 spammy=techniques, 2500, doug, Doug
X-HELO: mail-qt1-f174.google.com
DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed;        d=gmail.com; s=20161025;        h=mime-version:references:in-reply-to:from:date:message-id:subject:to;        bh=r0GTfHHGeKguIbtsgdqW8lf81db0s2shMsUzRn15bbQ=;        b=u/uSnAOp9Sic1iJiyO4NCX8TEd2hlO4XeHPeuv4dXASrinC76m9swO91cQ+JfOZMWw         wr/4YvjuKKpx9pJ6R7C5zh0dD8JBdVZuAhII4D8maL4X88S+3a5h75TN74uD6igXSCpg         Vr/obxqToVZZ/EVs203YvkaCYlKueL8t7twu2zCCspBm4g31NCGklXP3TnqUympBIre6         /2PuqqVpR56bgm4vINiY3Vo+0X0idxc266jz8GdxASX5LfEh4mNXmXf+8qKsKWrt5Eu7         xwHuZtoTQGpYs/g8PwOm6GL4/ZFwXl7mmPLtRQZGgeN6iOJIkwF6buDm8e1DZAb7VtEm         0ccA==
MIME-Version: 1.0
References: <CAAr43iP0uP2QdPiJC5ixJHznZWAuAoMzze+-sUfzx9t9h2DgPQ AT mail DOT gmail DOT com>
In-Reply-To: <CAAr43iP0uP2QdPiJC5ixJHznZWAuAoMzze+-sUfzx9t9h2DgPQ@mail.gmail.com>
From: Doug Henderson <djndnbvg AT gmail DOT com>
Date: Fri, 26 Apr 2019 23:10:30 -0600
Message-ID: <CAJ1FpuPLqSaL+2yeS14DxjgSogmx8KS1eGqHJKH=Nyjfm7zx-g@mail.gmail.com>
Subject: Re: gforth package
To: cygwin <cygwin AT cygwin DOT com>
Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8"
X-IsSubscribed: yes

On Fri, 26 Apr 2019 at 21:59, Joel Rees <> wrote:

> Is anyone aware of the reason Gforth is no longer in packages?

gforth 0.7.0-2 was packaged for cygwin 1.7 about 10 years ago. It was
part of the cygport extras mirror, which contained over 2,500
un-official and un-maintained packages. This mirror was retired
several years ago due to, I think, lack of interest in the packages,
and possibly the lack of an official maintainer.

To quote the setup.hint file:

category: Interpreters
requires: libffi4 libgcc1 libltdl7 libtool
sdesc: "GNU Forth language interpreter"
ldesc: "Gforth is a fast and portable implementation of the ANS Forth
language. It works nicely with the Emacs editor, offers some nice
features such as input completion and history, backtraces, a
decompiler and a powerful locals facility, and it even has a
manual. Gforth combines traditional implementation techniques with
newer techniques for portability and performance: its inner
interpreter is direct threaded with several optimizations, but you can
also use a traditional-style indirect threaded interpreter."


The package for gforth 0.7.0-2 for cygwin 1.7 can be rebuilt using the
git repository, and upgraded to the current version of cygwin (3.0.6),
current versions of the dependencies, and then possibly to the latest
Gforth version (0.7.3). I have also seen indications that it could be
compiled using Mingw for Windows.


> Is it just a matter of lack of maintainer?
Would you like to volunteer? Otherwise, an existing or new maintainer
might be interested. Or you could build it yourself for your own use.

HTH
Doug
-- 
Doug Henderson, Calgary, Alberta, Canada - from gmail.com

--
Problem reports:       http://cygwin.com/problems.html
FAQ:                   http://cygwin.com/faq/
Documentation:         http://cygwin.com/docs.html
Unsubscribe info:      http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple