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From: anton@mips.complang.tuwien.ac.at (Anton Ertl)
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Subject: Re: ffl improvements
Date: Sat, 14 Dec 2024 07:23:09 GMT
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albert@spenarnc.xs4all.nl writes:
>In article <2024Dec12.094531@mips.complang.tuwien.ac.at>,
>Anton Ertl <anton@mips.complang.tuwien.ac.at> wrote:
>>albert@spenarnc.xs4all.nl writes:
>>>You can test gforth easily because there is a separate debian package
>>>to attach the ffl library.
>>
>>Which one?
>Who cares.

Ok, I take this to mean that your claim above and the claim below is
false.

>There is a separate package to make it easier to run
>ffl in gforth.

>>>So I push them to https://github.com/uho/ffl
>>>and hope it is accepted.
>>
>>Ulrich Hoffmann is not the maintainer of the ffl AFAIK, so I would not
>>expect him to accept the pull request.
>My bad. He is the owner, he cloned it, but he has no interest in it?

What do you mean with "owner"?  Forking another repo is a step in the
github process to produce pull requests.  E.g., I have forked ohcont
in order to produce the pull request I mentioned.  It means that uho
had some interest in the ffl at the time.  It does not mean that he is
the maintainer or will accept pull requests.

>The question remains. Why has Ullrich forked the archive if he
>is not planning to do anything with it.

You might ask him.  As mentioned, one guee is that he did it to
prepare a pull request.

I certainly see that his ffl has 409 commits, the latest of which is
from August 4, 2011, whereas <https://github.com/irdvo/ffl> has 440
commits, the latest of which is from July 29, 2017.  So it seems that
uho's interest in the ffl waned before irdvo's.

- anton
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