gnupic: Pic18Forth - Major Announcement
Subject:
Pic18Forth - Major Announcement
From:
David McNab ####@####.####
Date:
24 Jan 2005 23:44:29 +0000
Message-Id: <41F58855.9060008@rebirthing.co.nz>
Hi,
Major update for Pic18Forth:
1) Website
The Pic18Forth website has moved to a new permanent home that won't be
affected by my up/downtime: http://pic18forth.sourceforge.net
If anyone has linked to Pic18Forth, could you please at your earliest
convenience change the URL to that above.
2) Change of License
To cut out the confusion, I've gone for a simpler licensing scheme:
- GPL for compiler, test progs and doco
- LGPL for library modules (which include code that gets inserted
verbatim in final compiled applications)
3) New version
Pic18Forth v0.0.1 includes the following:
- several major bug fixes
- OO support! An optional, loadable OO layer, featuring an efficient,
flexible late-binding polymorphic objects engine, with perhaps the
easiest and most readable syntax of any forth OO engine
4) It's still alpha
While new features are coming thick and fast, and while bugs are
dropping like flies, Pic18Forth is still alpha. Programs you write might
work fine, but then again they might fail in weird and often
entertaining ways,
But if you're comfortable reading assembler and using gpsim/MPLAB/icd,
you should cope fine.
Over time, I'll tidy up the demo progs into a suite of stepwise
regression tests, as well as improve the currently shoddy state of the
documentation.
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Cheers
David
