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ANN: XLib-Unit
by Eike Lange 29 Jul '02

29 Jul '02

Hi! Welcome to the wonderful world of XLib Unit. This unit interfaces Xlib.h and X.h. Xlib is a very basic library you may need for creating graphical user interfaces (GUI). If you need some documentation about XLib-Programming, please visit the following sites: (I am not responsible for the contents of these sites) * http://www.tronche.com/gui/x/xlib/introduction/ * http://www.rahul.net/kenton/xsites.framed.html It would be wonderful, if someone could review this unit. Download from: http://gnu-pascal.de/contrib/eike/ Eike

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GPC 2.1 released
by Frank Heckenbach 10 May '02

10 May '02

This is the announcement of GNU Pascal, version 2.1 which is now available from http://www.gnu-pascal.de/current/ Binaries for some platforms are available in a subdirectory http://www.gnu-pascal.de/binary/ Binaries for more platforms will follow soon and will be announced on the GPC mailing list which is archived at http://www.gnu-pascal.de/crystal/gpc/en/ About GNU Pascal ================ The GNU Pascal Compiler (GPC) is part of the GNU compiler family, GNU CC or GCC. It combines a Pascal front-end with the proven GNU C back-end for code generation and optimization. Unlike utilities such as p2c, this is a true compiler, not just a converter. The purpose of the GNU Pascal project is to produce a Pascal compiler which * combines the clarity of Pascal with powerful tools suitable for real-life programming, * supports both the Pascal standard and the Extended Pascal standard as defined by ISO, ANSI and IEEE (ISO 7185:1990, ISO/IEC 10206:1991, ANSI/IEEE 770X3.160-1989), * supports other Pascal standards (UCSD Pascal, Borland Pascal, parts of Borland Delphi and Pascal-SC) in so far as this serves the goal of clarity and usability, * may be distributed under GNU license conditions, and * can generate code for and run on any computer for which the GNU C compiler can generate code and run on. Pascal was originally designed for teaching. GNU Pascal provides a smooth way to proceed to challenging programming tasks without learning a completely different language. The current release GPC 2.1 implements Standard Pascal (ISO 7185, levels 0 and 1), a large subset of Extended Pascal (ISO 10206, aiming for full compliance), is highly compatible to Borland Pascal (version 7.0) with some Delphi extensions, and provides a lot of useful GNU extensions. For more information about GNU Pascal, see http://www.gnu-pascal.de Changes since the previous release ================================== The previous release (GPC 2.0) was more than five years ago. Since then, there have been numerous alpha and beta versions and literally hundreds of new features and bug fixes. Trying to list them here, even if only as a summary, would be far beyond the scope of such an announcement. You can find descriptions of the new features since 1999-01-18 at http://www.gnu-pascal.de/current/news-2.1.html and a detailed list of all new features and bug fixes since 1997-11-01 at http://www.gnu-pascal.de/current/done-2.1.html In short, a large number of bugs have been fixed, so GPC 2.1 works much more stable than its predecessor versions. Also, many relics that made it sometimes look somewhat like a C compiler rather than a Pascal compiler have been cleared up. Compared to GPC 2.0, the support of ISO 7185 Standard Pascal as well as Borland Pascal has been mostly completed. Borland Pascal support includes object oriented programming and a set of compatibility units. Much of ISO 10206 Extended Pascal is now supported, including schema types (i.e., types whose size can vary at runtime), complex numbers, set extensions and more. Some features of other Pascal standards and dialects are supported, such as operator overloading (Pascal-SC) and some OOP extensions (Delphi). GPC also contains many extensions not found in other Pascal compilers, e.g. to ease the interfacing with C and other languages in a portable way, and to work with files, directories, dates and more, mostly independent of the underlying operating system. A number of useful units is included with GPC, such as `RegEx' (regular expressions), `GMP' (arithmetic with integer, rational and real numbers of unlimited size), `Trap' (trapping runtime errors), `Intl' (internationalization), `Pipe' (inter-process communication), `MD5' (message digests) and many more. GPC includes a number of demo programs to show the usage of these units and of many compiler features. Further units, Pascal programs and other 3rd party contributions can be found at http://www.gnu-pascal.de/contrib/ Have fun, The GNU Pascal development team

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WWW upload form
by Frank Heckenbach 29 Apr '02

29 Apr '02

Hi everyone, there is now a WWW upload form at http://gnu-pascal.de/contrib/upload.html If you would like to offer some GPC contributions, you can now upload them via this form. But, of course, other ways are also still possible, e.g. sending the files to me by email. If you'd like to make regular uploads, you might want to contact me about getting your own account. Frank -- Frank Heckenbach, frank(a)g-n-u.de, http://fjf.gnu.de/, 7977168E GPC To-Do list, latest features, fixed bugs: http://www.gnu-pascal.de/todo.html

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GPC 2.1 RC 5 released; New URL
by Frank Heckenbach 03 Apr '02

03 Apr '02

Hi everyone, GPC version 20020402, the release candidate #5 for GPC 2.1, has been uploaded to http://www.gnu-pascal.de/current/gpc-20020402.tar.gz A diff against RC 4 can be found at http://www.gnu-pascal.de/current/gpc-20020318-20020402.diff.gz The home page of GPC is now http://www.gnu-pascal.de/ The download area has moved to the same URL. All the downloads are now offered via HTTP rather than FTP. Apart from the move, the changes since RC 4 are quite minor, so there is some real hope that this is the final RC. Frank -- Frank Heckenbach, frank(a)g-n-u.de, http://fjf.gnu.de/, 7977168E GPC To-Do list, latest features, fixed bugs: http://www.gnu-pascal.de/todo.html

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GPC 2.1 RC 2 released
by Frank Heckenbach 23 Dec '01

23 Dec '01

Hi everyone, GPC version 20011222, the release candidate #2 for GPC 2.1, has been uploaded to the usual places, CVS and FTP: ftp://agnes.dida.physik.uni-essen.de/gnu-pascal/current/gpc-20011222.tar.gz The main changes made since RC 1 are in the searching of unit source and GPI files (thanks to a bug report by The Chief), the handling of packed arrays (thanks to a bug report by Emil Jerabek) and set constructors (due to some bugs found by myself). If you use any of these things, you might want to check if the changes didn't break any of your code. There is also one new "feature", the Intl (internationalization) unit by Eike Lange. (I know that normally one should not do major additions so short before a release, but the unit is completely separate from the rest of the compiler and run time system, so even a very unlikely fatal bug would not affect the stability of the whole system.) Again, I've tested it on some systems, test reports from other systems are welcome, and if you find new or especially important bugs, or very important missing features, please report them. Merry Xmas, Frank -- Frank Heckenbach, frank(a)g-n-u.de, http://fjf.gnu.de/ GPC To-Do list, latest features, fixed bugs: http://agnes.dida.physik.uni-essen.de/~gnu-pascal/todo.html

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GPC 2.1 RC 1 released
by Frank Heckenbach 12 Dec '01

12 Dec '01

Hi everyone, GPC version 20011202 has been uploaded to the usual places, CVS and FTP: ftp://agnes.dida.physik.uni-essen.de/gnu-pascal/current/gpc-20011202.tar.gz We consider this version the Release Candidate #1 for the upcoming GPC 2.1 release. Many things have changed since the last announced version. (Please see the `Done' section of the To-Do list and the `News' chapter in the manual or on the homepage for details.) Though many bugs have been fixed since the last version, there is still a number of known bugs left, some of which are longstanding issues that will take some time to be fixed. Therefore, according to a discussion in gpc(a)gnu.de, we have decided to make a 2.1 release now, anyway. This version has been tested successfully (i.e., the test suite ran without failures -- except martin2a.pas and fjf434c.pas on some platforms which should have been moved to knownbugs, and will be further investigated before the final release) on the following systems: i586-pc-linux-gnulibc1 (gcc-2.8.1) i586-pc-linux-gnulibc1 (gcc-2.95.3) i386-pc-msdosdjgpp (gcc-2.8.1) sparc-sun-solaris2.6 (gcc-2.95.2) mips-sgi-irix6.5 (gcc-2.95.2) alpha-dec-osf4.0b (gcc-2.95.3) Test reports from other systems are welcome. If you find new or especially important bugs, or very important missing features, let us know so we can perhaps fix them before 2.1. Any major changes, however, will not be done in the 2.1 source tree, but rather in the next alpha versions leading to 2.2. Frank -- Frank Heckenbach, frank(a)g-n-u.de, http://fjf.gnu.de/ GPC To-Do list, latest features, fixed bugs: http://agnes.dida.physik.uni-essen.de/~gnu-pascal/todo.html

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Mailing list archive
by Frank Heckenbach 23 Nov '01

23 Nov '01

I have set up a new archive of the GPC mailing list, using crystal (see my other announcement). It can be found at: http://fjf.gnu.de/crystal/gpc/en/ (English) http://fjf.gnu.de/crystal/gpc/de/ (German) If there are any problems with the archive, please report them to me. Frank -- Frank Heckenbach, frank(a)g-n-u.de http://fjf.gnu.de/ PGP and GPG keys: http://fjf.gnu.de/plan

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Crystal-0.90 released
by Frank Heckenbach 20 Nov '01

20 Nov '01

This is to announce the first public release of crystal. Crystal is a web based mailing list archive. It is still under development, and some planned interesting features are still missing, but it should run stable already and has been tested (on some private lists) for several months. The main functionality of crystal is: - Archive incoming mails and make them accessible by date, author, subject, thread, topic, etc. - Do not require the archive to be updated regularly by a special command. Instead, each mail is visible as soon as it's received. - Make attachments accessible. - Provide a search function. - Allow authenticated and anonymous access (as configured by the administrator). - Let users send mails to the list via WWW (optionally anonymously). - Provide user administration where users can change, add and remove email addresses and change their passwords and other settings via WWW (optionally). - Can be configured either via config files or in the source. Crystal is free software (GNU GPL) and was written for GNU Pascal. More information and the sources for download can be found at http://fjf.gnu.de/crystal/ Frank -- Frank Heckenbach, frank(a)g-n-u.de http://fjf.gnu.de/ PGP and GPG keys: http://fjf.gnu.de/plan

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ANNOUNCEMENT: pas2po
by Eike Lange 15 Nov '01

15 Nov '01

Hi Folks! I finished writing a tool, similar to `xgettext' named `pas2po'. This program extracts all translatable strings out of a GNU Pascal source file and creates a po file, similar to xgettext. Missing is the timezone information. The output is not sorted, but there are no duplicate entries. Like xgettext output, you have to edit the file by hand to include the missing informations. (Later on, you can process this po file with `msgfmt' to create a mo file) You can download the actual sources via ftp from: agnes.dida.physik.uni-essen.de/pub/home/lange/pas2po-0.2.tar.gz See, that this is _completely_ different from that in inter-unit (tools), but shares the same name. I'll remove the one in inter-unit. Eike

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CELEBS ALL NAKED :-)
by aromatherapy＠aol.com 14 Oct '01

14 Oct '01

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