On Fri, 26 Apr 2002, Frank Heckenbach wrote:
Long time ago, Ernst-Ludwig Bohnen wrote:
On Mon, 16 Oct 2000, Frank Heckenbach wrote:
Ernst-Ludwig Bohnen wrote:
May be a unit in my tool box is a candidate. Everybody can read it at: http://www.desy.de/~bohnen/gpc/dictionary.pas
I think this unit is good as a standalone unit. Be welcome to contribute it to GPC (if you agree to release it under some free license). If you like to upload it to some "official" place,
Ok, let's do this. The unit dictionary.pas needs base.pas found on the same place. If there is any action I should do, please tell me. How do we handle new releases?
This seems to have been forgotten. But now, with GPC on the new server, it's possible again to upload things in the contrib area.
So if you still like to contribute it, please let me know. I can either give you an account (ssh/scp) so you can upload and update things yourself, or you can send things to me and I'll put them up.
I had been out several weeks, so the answer is somewhat late. I still like to contribute, though missing or poor documentation may be a severe handicap. But nevertheless let's start with an account with ssh, scp, wget etc. and some (writable) disk space.
BTW, in order to compile and test some units with the new gpc-2.1 release I realised that my lovely GPC installer (install.gpc) doesn't work anymore. Beside some simple other problems (wich have been solved within the script) after unzipping the gpc-2.1.tar.gz file the dir name is gpc-20020510 instead of gpc-2.1 but install.gpc expects only identical base names. I could repair this behavior as well in the script, but we would loose the very usefull feature of simple switching between different gpc versions in case of trouble.
Two questions: - Is there a way to access ALL gpc versions from the same URL-directory, possibly by symlinks? - Could gpc-versionxyz.tar.gz resolve after untaring to dir gpc-versionxyz ?
If I am not wrong a link ../beta/gpc-20020510.tar.gz to ../current/gpc-2.1.tar.gz can do the job in a single step, and in addition dissolve the (little) confusion that the newest GPC-manual for 2.1 is labeled with 'version 20020510' anyway.
Ernst-Ludwig
PS: Current work around for the problem mentioned above is download manually gpc-2.1.tar.gz, rename it to gpc-20020510.tar.gz, then run 'install.gpc -pv gpc-20020510' Install.gpc doesn't download again if it finds a valid gpc...tar.gz file in dir /tmp/${USER}/install.gpc. Installation works fine, gpc 2.1 as well but I hadn't time enough to test everything.