With all due respect to Prof. Olowofoyeku, I do not personally find anything well documented about the current state of GPC development on the GPC homepage.  The wikipedia page does have some helpful information regarding its current state; however, information on a Wikipedia page is not always accurate and may even be misleading.  

As John wrote, the most recent files on the website are quite old.  There is no explanation to the general person interested in GPC who visits the site, why there is nothing newer.  Nothing in the FAQ or documentation.  Perhaps searching the e-mail archives might yield something, but in my experience, people with only cursory interest, will not dig deep for the answers.  A topic as serious as the current development state, especially for a project like GPC that appears to have been abandoned, should be plainly state somewhere on the project website.

PLEASE Please understand I am not complaining.  I am simply giving my opinion and offering my help.  Pascal was one of my first languages and I honestly would not enjoy seeing GPC completely wither away and disappear.  That said, I am NOT a compiler or OS developer.  I did briefly experiment with GPC code in the early 2000's, but have very little experience with C in general.  That doesn't mean I can't learn it; my learning curve would just be rather steep.

It is my firm opinion we should chat about what can be done with GPC.  Should it be rewritten in C++?  Should it be patched and cleaned up to work with the newest GCC toolchains?  Should GPC become a translator, accepting pascal code and emitting C++?


Thoughts???
-Ken

On Wed, Dec 28, 2016 at 12:59 PM, John L. Ries <jries@salford-systems.com> wrote:
It would be nice if we could find something on the website more recent
than 2005 (perhaps a changelog and links to the current codebase); maybe
some instructions on how to get GPC to compile with GCC 5 and 6, or at
least a sense of how one would go about creating the necessary patches to
the latter.

Personally, I would be overjoyed if I had some time to contribute to GPC
development, but I work too many hours at my regular job to consider it at
the present time; but perhaps there are some small things that some of us
could do to move things along at the rate of an hour or two a week per
person.

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On Wed, 28 Dec 2016, Prof Abimbola Olowofoyeku wrote:

> What (apart from that which is already well documented about the current
> state of the development efforts) would you like to ask us?
>
> Regards
> The chief
> On 29 Dec 2016, at 03:43, Ken Linder <kc7rad@gmail.com> wrote:
>       Have you tried contacting Peter, "The African Chief" or any of
>       the other people that worked on the compiler?
> If no one is responding, perhaps I should get a snapshot of all the
> files on www.gnu-pascal.de .  Wouldn't want the entire thing lost.
>
> -Ken
>
> On Tue, Dec 27, 2016 at 9:39 PM, Schneider <schneidt@mail.nih.gov>
> wrote:
>       Ken:
>
>       > I have been wondering the same thing.
>
>       It's not functional on Mac OS X for more than a year and
>       the guy
>       responsible for it doesn't respond.
>
>       Tom
>
>         Thomas D. Schneider, Ph.D.
>         Senior Investigator
>         National Institutes of Health
>         National Cancer Institute
>         Center for Cancer Research
>         RNA Biology Laboratory
>         Molecular Information Theory Group
>         Frederick, Maryland  21702-1201
>         schneidt@mail.nih.gov
>         https://schneider.ncifcrf.gov (current link)
>         https://alum.mit.edu/www/toms (permanent link)
>
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