Path: eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: anton@mips.complang.tuwien.ac.at (Anton Ertl) Newsgroups: comp.lang.forth Subject: Re: ffl improvements Date: Sat, 14 Dec 2024 07:23:09 GMT Organization: Institut fuer Computersprachen, Technische Universitaet Wien Lines: 46 Message-ID: <2024Dec14.082309@mips.complang.tuwien.ac.at> References: <2024Dec12.094531@mips.complang.tuwien.ac.at> Injection-Date: Sat, 14 Dec 2024 08:42:21 +0100 (CET) Injection-Info: dont-email.me; posting-host="b8d556ac365a772615b2efea75bcbdaa"; logging-data="4107282"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX1+95iwhVG/aDWEVVPMLy5d7" Cancel-Lock: sha1:yOrVhrs1B85Xeal/XChPRLdHe/E= X-newsreader: xrn 10.11 albert@spenarnc.xs4all.nl writes: >In article <2024Dec12.094531@mips.complang.tuwien.ac.at>, >Anton Ertl 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 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 -- M. Anton Ertl http://www.complang.tuwien.ac.at/anton/home.html comp.lang.forth FAQs: http://www.complang.tuwien.ac.at/forth/faq/toc.html New standard: https://forth-standard.org/ EuroForth 2024: https://euro.theforth.net