So, the new PICs won't be supported anymore by JAL. And Microchip won't provide the libs (I refer to the old PLIB) for them. As I understand, the only way is to use their visual code generator that generates sources marked with Microchip copyright and agreements. That is definitely not for me. Also, Microchip will stop providing support for gcc regarding AVR micros, and will further develop their xc8 compiler to take over. There is Great Cow Basic that has an active development for PICs and AVRs, new and old. For now. ST Microelectronics (STM32 micro provider) did the same with their SPL library, dropped it and started a new, bloated one that has support in their visual configurator CubeMX and, as you guessed, the generated code is copyrighted to ST.M., with agreements. I started my own Visual Pin Configurator that uses the old SPL library as I want that my code to be my code (almost ready). I'm pretty sure that the "Lords of this world" didn't liked the Arduino and RepRap revolutions so, they work hard to contain the phenomenon - everything goes into the cloud(s), visual code generators are promoted hard, and bloaty libraries that lack performance are promoted with licenses that make you think that they did you a huge favor. Solutions? Those are becoming rare and time will cover them in dust, as everything new is well controlled/contained. Thank you Kyle for swam against the current for such a long time! God bless you!
On Sun, Sep 2, 2018 at 10:26 AM Rob Jansen <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi Kyle, > > Pity but I understand that there is more to life than programming. Thanks > for building a great compiler. > > The question to all in this group is how to continue. As you know there > are new PICs that are not supported by the compiler because they have more > than 32 banks. If we do not fix this then these PICs will be excluded. Next > to that there are some other smaller bugs but these are not blocking (I > think). > > I have downloaded the compiler sources from your website and was able to > re-build the compiler for Windows but that was it. I had a look at the > sources and this is not something you easily take over > especially if you have never build a compiler. It took me quite some time > to take over the device file generation scripts from Rob Hamerling and I > still not fully understand them but my strategy is that I will learn if I > need to fix things. > > So my question to the group is if there is anybody who is interested and > willing to take over the JAL compiler as to be able to continue the JAL > journey? > > Thanks again Kyle. > > Kind regards, > > Rob Jansen > > > On Saturday, September 1, 2018 at 7:46:22 PM UTC+2, zmafoox wrote: >> >> Greets, >> >> (I assume there's a lot of overlap between jallib & jallist, but just in >> case...) >> >> I'm sad, but finally stating the obvious - I am retiring from JAL >> development. JALv2 was released in October, 2005 and last updated in >> October, 2016. My day job is as a programmer, and I've reached the point >> that when I sign off the last thing I want to do is more programming (there >> are simply too many great books to be read, and adventures to be had). >> >> >> I will continue to follow this list (& jallib) and happily provide >> technical support and assistance where needed, but will no longer actively >> track or fix bugs. If someone wants to take over, I'll zip up the CVS >> directory so all existing notes & history can be maintained. >> >> >> It's been a lot of fun, and I've learned much, but after 40 short years >> the time for programming (for me) is done. >> >> >> --kyle >> >> >> -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "jallib" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/jallib. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- Vasi -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "jallib" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/jallib. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
