Package: wntpp Severity: wishlist Information: Homepage: https://github.com/albertvanderhorst/ciforth lina is a 32 bit classic Forth system, (mostly) compliant to the ISO Forth94 standard, with a library in source form. It is small, yet allows to generate elf-executables that can be shipped to and run by non-Forth-aware users. This is unique among Forth's available to linux. It has no dependancies, so it can be used instead of a c-compilation system or Python scripter, where size matters. Also simplicity engenders reliability.
Architecture: This package is (for now) limited to i386 and amd86 architectures. Background: The system is in use since 2000. It has an extensive regressiontest and comprehensive documentation. It is part of the ciforth family with compatible systems for MS-windows, OSX and MS-DOS (and similar compilers for Dec Alpha, 6809, Renesas 16, ARM) It has been used to build an assembler/disassembler (ciasdis) that has some notoriety. The license is GPL2 for the compiler itself. LPGPL applies to all library elements, including those contained within the compiler executable. Releases: https://github.com/albertvanderhorst/ciforth/release contains current releases. Binary releases are at 5.3.0 for Linux, MS-windows and OSX. Packaging: release/lina_5.3.0_i386.deb is generated by a script debian.sh from a lina_#.tar.gz release. A binary release contains the one(!) source file, so a binary release can serve as an upstream source package. This should help a prospective sponsor to swiftly go towards RFP. Maintenance: I'm the developer and maintainer since 2000 and I'm planning on continuing to develop and maintain it. Also I'm willing to adapt the package in order to smoothen the cooperation with Debian. Greetings, Albert -- Suffering is the prerogative of the strong, the weak -- perish. Albert van der Horst