I've managed to produce a script available here
https://www.cs.bham.ac.uk/research/projects/poplog/V16/getpoplog.sh
viewable in a browser as:
https://www.cs.bham.ac.uk/research/projects/poplog/V16/getpoplog
On my fedora machine at home, with a fairly fast internet connection, if I
run the script it fetches all the required files and builds a usable poplog
with the documentation files and packages from Birmingham included -- in
less than a minute. I was amazed at the speed.
I have found out how to get an up to date version of Waldek's poplog from
github (as a zip file). I had to fix a couple of minor things (e.g. setup
scripts for tcsh users, and re-packaged everything as a tar.bz2 file,
following Waldek's example, but using a different name:
http://www.cs.bham.ac.uk/research/projects/poplog/V16/latest_poplog_base.tar.bz2
The getpoplog.sh file now fetches that and also some tar files with
additional poplog packages and documentation.
It then untars the latest_poplog file, creating poplog_base, and runs the
script in that directory that Waldek provided, except that I had to convert
it from bash to a tcsh script to make it run when invoked from the download
script.
I found no way to get the download script to run the bash script: I had to
manually 'source' it instead. I never worked out why.
(Perhaps a security feature in bash?)
Anyhow the tcsh version worked and rebuilt the basic poplog, so I extended
it with commands also to unpack the extra documentation and packages files.
So now everything is fetched and installed using one command -- and on my
machine the whole process, including all Waldek's compilation to rebuild
poplog, takes at most about a minute. I have not timed it!
[My shell programming is very primitive. It's possible that someone could
produce a better fetch+install script. Mine is full of comments to help
if anything goes wrong.]
SUMMARY:
Everything is now fetched and built by downloading and running the
getpoplog.sh file.
After that the poplog_base directory has a file called USEPOP which has the
contents to be set to $usepop. E.g. using tcsh and bash respectively:
setenv usepop `cat poplog_base/USEPOP`
export usepop=`cat poplog_base/USEPOP`
After that, bash users do the following to set up search lists:
source $usepop/pop/com/poplog.sh
tcsh users do:
source $usepop/pop/com/poplog.csh
This is all included in
http://www.cs.bham.ac.uk/research/projects/poplog/V16/latest_poplog_base.tar.bz2
Documentation of the process, with other background information is in
https://www.cs.bham.ac.uk/research/projects/poplog/V16/AREADME.html
The linux prerequisites for redhat-based and debian-based linux are linked
from the AREADME file
https://www.cs.bham.ac.uk/research/projects/poplog/V16/AREADME.html#prerequisites
I'll add any others if information is provided.
I presume that eventually all of this can be handled by github.
(I wish it preserved dates of unchanged files .... to help with debugging.)
Testing espeak version of Eliza:
If you have installed the linux espeak library, then after the above
installation is complete you can do this:
mkeliza-speak
ignore the print out
Please type
eliza();
[the library needs to be altered slightly.]
Turn on your speakers, then do
pop11 +eliza
Enjoy your conversation. Kids love it ... for a while.
Type in anything -- but no line breaks. Questions, statements, commands
will all produce responses (possibly incoherent). Eliza's rules are easily
replaced/extended. There's no learning, except that occasionally the user's
input is stored, and re-used later.
A future project for someone: replace keyboard input with spoken input.
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To test the winograd-inspired simulated robot -- create the saved image:
mkgblocks
Ignore the stuff printed out.
Then run it:
pop11 +gblocks
it asks if you want to use xved, answer 'y' or 'n'.
If necessary remove
$usepop/pop/lib/psv/gblocks.psv
or other unwanted saved images. They all depend on 'startup.psv'
which cannot be removed, though if needed it is easily rebuilt,
using:
mkstartup
And now I have to try to catch up with a huge backlog of other things.
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Waldek's (32-bit) port to ARM is available here:
http://www.math.uni.wroc.pl/~hebisch/poplog/poplog_arm.tar.bz2
If anyone tries it, please report here.
Thanks.
I wish happy festivities to all!
Aaron
