Dear Raul, I understand what you are saying, but I don't think that was my question.
While I am technically capable of maintaining J, there are many, many things I am also capable of maintaining (like the Linux kernel, GCC, my video drivers, etc.). Given the practical limitations of time, I was hoping to leverage off of the wonderful and deeply appreciated up-to-date, ongoing work done by the JSoftware team while others could leverage off of the work I have done (i.e. https://github.com/blakemcbride/Dynace ). Certainly, the JSofwrae team is under utterly no obligation, moral or otherwise, to share their work. I was simply asking the question. Given time limitations, although I am sure it would be great fun, I am highly unlikely to ever "maintain" J. On the flip side, it is highly likely that I would contribute build or porting fixes, and document and report bugs. Given the fact that full source is available to many fine languages, I am reluctant to devote significant time to a single source (from one vendor) proprietary language - just a personal sentiment. With respect and appreciation, Blake McBride P.S. In order to build J701b on current 64 bit Linux machines, I had to change bin/jconfig From: SOLINK=" -shared -W1,soname,libj.so -lm -ldl -o " To: SOLINK=" -shared -Wl,-soname=libj.so -lm -ldl -o " (Haven't checked yet but I sense that jconfig is generated and I need to propagate that change elsewhere. Also, after building on this 64 bit machine, the majority of the tests pass but several failed. I won't bother to report this since the code is so old anyway. On Tue, Apr 1, 2014 at 12:20 AM, Raul Miller <[email protected]> wrote: > The official release has not been changed since 2011. > > I think we (the J community) need to step up and take start addressing > the bug list: > http://www.jsoftware.com/jwiki/System/Requests%20%26%20Bug%20Reports > > That's a direct consequence of it being open source now. It's up to us. > > (Personally, I've got a machine that I intend to use for J source > debugging and development, but I can't get it on the internet right > now. I think I'll need to arrange for the aging and overloaded router > that's immediately upstream of me to be replaced before I can get much > of anywhere.) > > Thanks > > -- > Raul > > On Tue, Apr 1, 2014 at 1:05 AM, Blake McBride <[email protected]> wrote: > > Greetings, > > > > I was under the impression that J source code (to the engine) was > > available. I understand there is an old snapshot of 701b, but I have > been > > keeping up-to-date with your SVN repository thinking I was keeping up > with > > the source. Wanting to build it now, I realized it isn't there. > > > > Having source code is an important factor to me. Is it available > > somewhere, or are there plans for additional source code releases? > > > > Thanks. > > > > Blake McBride > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm
